Trends in youth offending in Europe

Reforming Juvenile Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Stevens, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84889963489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89295-5_1     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Special caution needs to be used in interpreting figures from the new member states, as several of them experienced big changes in their criminal justice systems in the transition from communism during the 1990s.
2. These figures come from police statistics. The definition of a "suspected offender" varies between countries, ranging from being recorded when the police themselves are convinced who the offender is, to being recorded only when a prosecutor starts proceedings against a suspect. 3 In the EU15, the figures are not available for Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, Northern Ireland and Scotland. In the new EU members, the figures are not available for Cyprus, Lithuania and Malta.
3. Data for missing years for individual countries has been imputed by using the average of the previous and subsequent years, or the previous or subsequent year for years at the end or beginning of the series.