Demographic Variations in Self-Reported Delinquency and Victimisation amongst Juveniles in Ljubljana: Iza Kokoravec Povh, Gorazd Meško, Ineke Haen Marshall

Understanding juvenile delinquency and victimisation is essential for safely guiding juveniles into adulthood and designing effective prevention strategies. This chapter examines self-reported juvenile delinquency and victimisation in Ljubljana, Slovenia, utilising data from the ISRD4 study collected in 2022 and 2023, involving 873 respondents. The focus of this chapter is on understanding the factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency and victimisation, in particular gender, grade and immigration status, consistent with the 16th UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Our results show that girls do not statistically differ from boys in victimisation experiences but that boys are more delinquent in several categories. Disparities exist between native and first- as well as second-generation immigrant respondents. Immigrant respondents report experiencing more hate crimes, while they also seem to report being more delinquent overall. There are no apparent age/grade trends for victimisation or delinquency, except for the delinquent category of drug dealing.