This book presents the first major release of findings from the Fourth International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD4), an ongoing, multi-national project examining young people's experiences with both victimization and offending. Covering 21 countries, this book reports responses from 58,000 young people aged 13 to 17, exploring their experiences with crime as victims, offenders, and offender-victims. The book provides in-depth analyses of cross-national crime patterns, the victim-offender overlap, the overlap in both online and offline domains, and the experiences of serious and repeat victims and offenders. It concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of the implications for theory as well as policy.

Key takeaways from the study include:

• Cultural differences significantly impact the willingness to disclose offending behavior.
• Online victimization is an increasing concern, especially among girls and younger adolescents
• Overlap between online and offline forms of crime, and between victimization and offending is present in all countries
• Hate crimes and parental violence are more common than typically recognized.
  Authored by an international team, this book is essential for researchers in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, public policy, youth studies, and psychology.

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Ineke Haen Marshall is Professor of Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. She has published on comparative criminology, drug policy, criminal careers, minorities and crime, and cross-national methodology. She has been involved in the ISRD project from its inception. She is the founding editor-in-chief of International Criminology, the official publication of the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.

Karin Arbach is a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a Professor of Criminal Psychology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She has held academic positions at the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Dr. Arbach's primary research focuses on the assessment and management of violence risk within clinical, forensic, and correctional populations. She serves as a consultant on these topics for both private and public organizations across Latin America. Additionally, she has led several research projects on juvenile violence, sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, with the goal of empirically testing contemporary explanatory models. Since 2019, Dr. Arbach has coordinated the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD4) in Argentina and was recently appointed to the Steering Committee.

Chris Birkbeck is Professor of Criminology at the University of Salford, United Kingdom, and Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. He has also held visiting posts at the University of New Mexico and the University of Florida in the United States. His research has ranged over a variety of topics: the situational analysis of crime, community policing, police use of force, imprisonment and community sanctions, restorative justice, youth offending and victimization, moral stances towards crime, and comparative criminology. He has published in both Spanish and English and is a reviewer for numerous journals in both languages. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the ISRD project.

Dirk Enzmann is an Honorary Professor affiliated with the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences. He teaches criminology, statistics, and methods of criminological research. From 1998-2003, he was a Research Scientist at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hannover. His main research interests include juvenile development and delinquency, social change and crime, and survey methodology. Dirk Enzmann received his Ph.D. in psychology from the Free University of Berlin in 1995, and he is the author of many national and international publications.

Neal Hazel is Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Salford, United Kingdom. He has delivered more than 40 funded research projects, mainly in juvenile justice and family support, including several national surveys and evaluations. He specialises in providing useful policy and practice messages, most recently through his Beyond Youth Custody research. In 2018, Neal was appointed by the Secretary of State for Justice to the Youth Justice Board, which is responsible for overseeing the youth justice system across England and Wales. He led the Board's development of 'Child First' as the sector's guiding principle, evidence-informed guidance for all professionals, and the 'Constructive Resettlement' model for improving custodial outcomes. He is also former HM Deputy Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales, where he designed the robust method for holding newly privatised probation services to account. Neal is a trustee of the National Children's Bureau

Janne Kivivuori is Professor of Criminology, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research has focused on youth crime, homicide, and historical criminology. His book Discovery of Hidden Crime (2011) described how self-report crime surveys were initially invented, and how they impacted the history of criminology and criminal justice policy. Professor Kivivuori has contributed to all sweeps of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study since 1991, first nationally in Finland, then as the Nordic rapporteur, and finally joining the ISRD Steering Committee in 2010. In homicide research, he has been active in the development of the European Homicide Monitor. His recent book Nordic Homicide in Deep Time (2022) expanded standardized homicide research to historical periods.

Anna Markina is a researcher at the School of Law at the University of Tartu. Her research is focused on youth delinquency, the juvenile justice system, victims of crime, and trafficking in human beings. She has conducted quantitative and qualitative research with young juvenile offenders on probation and parole in prisons and reformatories addressing the rights of the child, the effectiveness of interventions and young people's response to them. She is currently the Chair of the Steering committee member of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD).

Zuzana Podaná is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Republic. Her main research focus is on criminology, particularly on topics related to youth delinquency, victimization, and domestic violence. She has participated in the ISRD since its second sweep and helped to organize three sweeps of the study in the Czech Republic. Since 2024, she has contributed to the ISRD project as a member of its Steering Committee.