Juvenile Delinquency in the Czech Republic: First Results of the ISRD-3 Self-Report Survey

Abstract

The article discusses the actual state of juvenile delinquency in the Czech Republic and its development in the last decade. The main source of data is the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD) whose second sweep took place in 2006-2007 and its third sweep during the spring of 2013. Firstly, prevalences of delinquency from ISRD-3 are presented. Secondly, the development of delinquency rates between the two sweeps of ISRD is described and compared to the trend based on official police data. Thirdly, the article focuses on shifts in findings between ISRD-2 and ISRD-3. Special attention is paid to the trend of lowering gender differences in certain types of offending that has continued after 2007.