A Global View on Youth Crime and Victimization: Results From the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3)

• Date: 01 November 2019
• DOI: 10.1177/1043986219884814
• Published date: 01 November 2019
• Author: Katharina Neissl,Ineke Haen Marshall,Anna Markina
• Subject Matter: Introduction

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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

2019, Vol. 35(4) 380 –385

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Introduction

A Global View on Youth

Crime and Victimization:

Results From the

International Self-Report

Delinquency Study (ISRD3)

Ineke Haen Marshall1, Katharina Neissl1

and Anna Markina2

International Self-Report Delinquency

Research—Version 2.0

This thematic issue of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice presents five

papers based on the third sweep of the International Self-Report Delinquency study

(ISRD3). The ISRD3 is a large, international collaborative self-report study of victim-

ization and delinquency among students between 12 and 16 years old in 35 countries.

The methodological background of this project has been extensively detailed in sev-

eral publications (Enzmann et al., 2018; Junger-Tas, 2012; Marshall & Enzmann,

2012).1 The first pioneering efforts of the ISRD project (ISRD1) took place in 1991-

1992 when 11 researchers from Europe and the United States agreed to collect self-

report data in their respective counties, using a basic core instrument, following basic

methodological procedures with an aim to achieve comparable data on delinquency.

The ISRD1 project was the first internationally comparative criminological project to

use the self-report delinquency method (Junger-Tas, 1994; Junger-Tas, Marshall, &

Ribeaud, 2003).2 After a lengthy hiatus, between 2006 and 2008, the second round of

the ISRD (ISRD2) collected data among more than 67,000 young people in 31 coun-

tries. Before launching the third sweep (ISRD3), the ISRD research protocol was

revised while taken care to maintain comparability with ISRD2; building on the solid

foundation of the earlier sweeps, ISRD3 data collection started in late 2012 and now

has been completed in 35 countries.3 The fourth sweep (ISRD4) has been planned for

2020-2022—we will discuss ISRD4 in more detail later in this Introduction.

Although the basic premise and methodology of the ISRD project has not changed

since its early beginnings almost 30 years ago, we selected Version 2.0 as the heading

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1Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

2University of Tartu, Estonia

Corresponding Author:

Ineke Haen Marshall, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Email: i.marshall@neu.edu