Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond: An International Perspective on Key Issues and Causes describes the juvenile crime situation and its backgrounds in the European Union member states as well as in the US, Canada, Venezuela and Surinam. The book includes information on key issues in juvenile delinquency such as victimization of young people, alcohol and drug use, involvement in youth gangs, immigration, family and school and neighborhood situations. It provides insight into different views on what can be considered juvenile crime; what acts are subsumed in its definition and when we can speak about structural delinquent behavior. These insights are based on self-reported information systematically and simultaneously collected from about 70,000 12-15 year old youth in 27 countries.Until recently the self-report methodology has not been applied on such a large scale in an international context. This is of great interest to social scientists who are interested in survey research. Applied on this scale the method provides new and unexpected data about those young people who structurally commit criminal acts, as well as on the frequency of the behavior and the conditions that have an impact on offending.The wealth of descriptions and insights in delinquency of all these countries will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners because of the special character of the publication: it is a book of reference to everyone interested in the backgrounds of juvenile delinquency