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Product Description <br/>This report analyzes data from three of the countries -- the Netherlands, Spain and England and Wales that participated in the International Self-reported Delinquency Study conducted in 1990-1992. Findings reveal broadly similar patterns and correlates in juvenile offending in the three nations, but the responses of legal institutions were quite different. The bulk of youth crime involved property offending and youth-related offenses, rather than violent crime. Drug use generally involved soft drug use. The degree to which youths delinquent acts were detected differed sharply, mainly because of lower detection rates in Spain than the other two countries. Agents of informal social control (parents, teachers, victims, other adults) were far more likely to be detectors of delinquency than the police.<br/> About the Author <br/>Rosemary Barberet is a scholar associated with the Universidad Carlos III.