Youth Crime Prevention Study among High School Students in the 12th District / Budapest — Opinions and Experiences of Public Safety

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to get to know how affected 10th grade high school students are from a victimological point of view. Based on the results of the study it can be affirmed that there is a 9 times victimological latency among 16–17 year old students in the 12th district, i.e. only a fraction of the offenses comes to the notice of the authorities. These findings also draw the attention to the fact that basing interventions or prevention strategies solely on criminal statistics without victimological studies can be misleading.