Sibling Study Research Notes: Young people and criminality

This paper is the first of a series of papers drawing upon the findings of the Sibling Study in order to explore adolescent criminality in Australia. The Sibling Study is an investigation, conducted over several years, of young people's involvement in criminality and the criminal justice system. 

The study is based upon self-reported offending from three groups of young people 

1. a group selected from a representative spread of state schools in the general Brisbane area 
2. a group of known offenders and
3. a group characterised by backgrounds of chronic disadvantage (i.e. vulnerable). 

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