| This paper presents preliminary findings on youth victimisation from a sample of 1,457 young people aged 12-15 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Self-completion surveys were utilised with the sample, which consists of roughly equal numbers of males/females and Catholic/Protestants, obtained from 6 secondary level schools in Belfast city. This is the first large-scale youth victimisation study to be done in the province. It examines both personal and family victimisation and also witnessing of crime. In addition it reports on victimisation from both ordinary and paramilitary/sectarian related crimes. The paper relates the key findings to those from youth victimisation studies in mainland Britain. |
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