Study on crime
Young, male, migrant: profile of young offenders
The group of young serial offenders is small, but causes a lot of damage. A new study by Johannes Kepler University shows what drives young people into crime.
Young, male, with an immigrant background and from a poor home - that is a typical profile of a juvenile serial offender. Added to this are difficult family circumstances: "Parents often don't know what their children are up to all day," says Helmut Hirtenlehner. Following the Halloween riots in Linz in 2022, the professor at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz was commissioned by the state of Upper Austria and the Upper Austrian Association of Cities and Towns to conduct a study on the topic of criminal teenagers. According to the study, the young offenders often have something else in common:

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