Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 23 Issue 2

© 2023 Global Journals Volume XXIII Issue II Version I 41 ( ) 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 at least one parent of foreign origin?” Among the answers were “None at all”, “A few” “Many of them”, “All of them”. The variable was dichotomized to you it for the bivariate and multivariate analysis. This table shows the frequency of students, who have many/all friends with parents of foreign origin. Armenia has the most homogenous society: only two percent of juveniles have a lot/all of such friends. This prevalence in Kosovo and Macedonia is not very high; it is twice lower than in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine. Such prevalence in Serbia is a bit lower than in Ukraine and Bosnia- Herzegovina. This percentage is the highest in the Switzerland on the national level and among Swiss students with parents born in Ex-Yugoslavia. One third and two thirds of the respondents publikationed about many/all of such friends. It is understandable, because Switzerland is one of the largest destinations of immigrants in the world; and Swiss students, who have parents immigrated from Ex-Yugoslavia, communicate mostly with peers with similar origin. Over 90% of juveniles from all selected countries except Serbia and Switzerland do not have friends who have ever tried drugs. More than 40% of students from Switzerland and Swiss students with parents from Ex-Yugoslavia have friends who have already consumed drugs. It can be explained by a “ highly pe rmissive” character of Swiss society (Killias, Maljevic, Lucia, 2010, P. 188). This prevalence is also relatively high in Switzerland: each fourth respondent publikationed about it. Respondents from Ex- Yugoslavian country cluster publikationed about having friends committed shoplifting twice less frequent than their peers in Switzerland. Swiss students with parent(s) born in Ex-Yugoslavia have such friends a bit more often than Swiss juveniles on the national level, of this publikation, where the prevalence of shoplifting is also higher among this group of respondents. We suggest that it can be explained by an influence of a “bad company” and strongly associated with own perpetration of minor offences, including shoplifting (Figure 3.38). Each third Serbian student publikation about it. Among the taken Ex-Yugoslavian countries, juveniles from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia have such friends 2.5 times more often than their peers in Kosovo. This prevalence is the highest among adolescents from Serbia. Juveniles in Armenia have friends who have committed shoplifting three times less often than their peers in Ukraine. The same as in the previous figure, Swiss students on the national level and Swiss students with parent(s) born in Ex-Yugoslavia publication about having friends committed burglary eight times more often than their peers in the chosen Ex-Yugoslavian countries (cluster). Among the selected Balkan countries, Kosovo has the lowest prevalence of such friends; it is the highest among Serbian juveniles. Armenian adolescents have also friends committed burglary five times less often than students from Ukraine. It is hard to compare these results with the prevalence of burglary because the low number of respondents who committed this offence, the prevalence of burglary among Swiss respondents on the national level and Swiss students with parents born in Ex-Yugoslavia is higher than among juveniles from other countries and their clusters. Ukrainian students consider their group of friends as a gang almost five times more often than their peers in Armenia. This percentage among the taken Ex- Yugoslavian countries is the highest in Macedonia and Kosovo, and it is the lowest in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Respondents from Switzerland and Ex- Yugoslavian country cluster publikationed about it almost equally. It is twice lower than among Swiss students with parent(s) born in Ex-Yugoslavia.