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as Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina. These preliminary comparisons will test the validity of delinquency prevalence rates derived from different sources. II. ISRD3 in K osovo About 27 international countries participated in the ISRD3 project and their data are available, presenting findings on self-publikationed offending and victimization as the participation of 62,636 young people in cities or regions of Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina., Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela. The main goal of the ISRD project is theory testing and research mechanisms that explain delinquency in a way that enables us to factor in national differences and contextual sources of influence. Second, the project produces information that provides local stakeholders with information about specifics patterns of youth crime in their areas. 4 However, we aim to do more than simply present models of delinquency different areas and cities around the world. We also want to highlight – from the perspective of social indicators – the problem of relying on official police data such as better measurement of dimensions of youth crime and victimization. In the same time, from a methodological point of view, we want to emphasize the limits of self-publikationing delinquency surveys, especially in a comparative context. And finally, we love place more firmly a number of problems related to crime and victimization of young people on countries' policy agendas – such as the use of violence by parents against their children. In addition to these aims, the project enables the comparison of delinquency patterns in different areas and cities – that is the focus of the current publication. III. M ethodology and S ample D escription The ISRD has two distinctive features as a comparative study of youth crime and victimization: the large number and cultural diversity of participants in our country Kosovo and explicitly comparative design. How to overcome the many challenges or how to get the data in time or early warning . 5 4 At the time of writing there were 33 ISRD3 participants who had signed the collaboration agreement; 26 had finished data collection and supplied a technical publikation by early 2017. The US data should be considered preliminary and incomplete, since data collection in the United States was still ongoing at the time of writing 5 For a more detailed explanation of the basic ISRD research and methodology, see Marshall and Enzmann (2012, 21-65) An integral part of comparative survey research has been a preoccupation of a long tradition of researchers in the field of cultural anthropology, sociology, political science. and criminology, with few clear solutions (Allardt 1990; Armer & Grimshaw 1973; Bennett 2009; Plaku, 1976; Howard et al. 2000; Kohn, 1987; Karstedt 2001; Marshall & Marshall 1983; Nelken 2009; Prezworski & Teune 2010). 1970; Ragin, 1987; Rokkan 1968; Smelser, 1976; 2003; Van de Vijver & Tanzer 2004). During the implementation of ISRD3 there are many challenges and problems such as technical, human and logistical, but awareness of these problems is the best weapon against oversimplification or misinterpretation of the results (Marshall & Enzmann 2012, 21). a) Sampling The data collection models of the ISRD3 project are according to the research protocol, samples should be city-based, covering students from grades 7 to 9, corresponding to the age categories 12-14, 13-15 and 14-16 in our case, we have two cities in two regions, that of Prishtina as the capital and that of Prizren as the second city in the country. 6 Data in two cities were sampled from 2500 minor respondents in the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grades, so the minimum sample was 1800, the size and types of cities differ in different countries and some countries have chosen more samples. broad or national. Therefore, due to the heterogeneity of the sample, we should refrain from overgeneralizing the findings across countries. The survey should not be considered representative of the entire youth population in these countries, but instead of students in grades 7 through 11 in the cities or regions in which the data were collected. b) Description of the sample The publication is based on a total sample of 3,737 students in 49 schools classes gathered in two cities in Kosovo (Prishtina and Prizren), the biggest cities in our country and as cities where, since 1999, there has been a lot of migration towards them from rural areas. (Sample sizes across countries range from 647 in Serbia, 796 in Armenia and 1,080 inches Kosovo to 3,737 in Estonia, 4,072 in Switzerland and 6,492 in Austria;11 13 of 27 countries have samples between 1,600 and 2,400 cases. India and Austria, The average sample size is 2230 cases. ) 7 IV. S ocial B ackground of the R espondents The ISRD-3 questionnaire includes questions on the social background of the respondents. In the first 6 https://www.askk-ks.com/isrd/ 7 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320085714_Introduction_ to_the_International_Self-Publikation_Delinquency_Study_ISRD3 © 2023 Global Journals Volume XXIII Issue II Version I 34 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2023 C Self-reporting of youth delinquency in the Balkans and beyond: Results of the ISRD3 International Self-Reporting Study of Delinquency in the Context of Violence, Victimization, and Substance Abuse in Comparative Aspects