Crime in the modern city: Juvenile delinquency and deviance in changing urban social milieus, lifestyles, ethnic-cultural orientations and social control

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Klaus Boers; Professor Dr. Jost Reinecke
• Subject Area: Criminology
• Term: from 2002 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5353089

The research project investigates the emergence, development and social control of delinquent and deviant behavioral styles of adolescents and young adults within a longitudinal design. The questions and hypotheses are based on a Structural Dynamic Model formulated in the initial application, whose essential variables were repeatedly assessed in the initial application (2002-2005) and in the respective renewal periods (2005-2019). For Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, biannual prospective cross-sectional and panel data over a total period of 18 years (average age 13-30 years) are available annually until 2009 and biannually from 2009 to 2019. Key objectives for the current application period (2020-2021) include the follow-up of the full and partial panel datasets, including the most recent data collected in 2019, the investigation of delinquency patterns transiting from adolescence to adulthood, the possible transmission of experiences of violence on the following generation (intergenerational transmission processes) as well as analyzes of the situation-related measurement of deviant behavior via a vignette design. After merging all datasets, the complete development of the delinquency from adolescence to adulthood will be investigated using continuous time modeling approaches.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants