Istraživanje tamne brojke delinkventnog i devijantnog ponašanja osoba do 18. godine života
Research on grey number of juvenile delinquency and deviant behaviour

Summary/Abstract: The Article covers the research into "the gray number " of juvenile delinquency and deviant behaviour. The research method employed was a self- report. 340 respondents were from Zagreb University and 55 respondents were not students. All of them were asked to answer 47 items with YES or NO, depending on whether they had done the thing described in the item before the age of 18. If the answer was Yes, they were asked whether they had done it once or more than once, alone or in the company of others. At the beginning of the questionnaire, they had to state their gender and the place where they lived until the age of 18. The research results were processed by SPSS computer program. Except for the basic parameters, the one-way analysis aimed at revealing possible differences between the respondents of different sex, residence and different educational background. As expected, the respondents more often manifested deviant behaviour and committed minor offences rather than crimes such as a petty theft. The male respondents answered more frequently that they had manifested the behaviours that were studied. These behaviours manifested themselves more often in the bigger cities and in the company of others. In item 21, the respondents without a degree stated that they had manifested the behaviours that were studied.

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