Factors associated with youth delinquency and victimization in Toronto, 2006 : Facteurs liés à la délinquance et à la victimisation chez les jeunes à Toronto, 2006

Through a series of logistic regression models, the study examines how the observed relationships between self-reported youth delinquency and the demographic variables of age, sex, family composition and generational status are affected by the addition of factors related to school, victimization and peer and family relationships. [...] Although there were differences across the two types of delinquency, the results showed that factors related to low school commitment, experiences of victimization and negative family and peer relationships were associated with greater chances of involvement in delinquent behaviour, over and above the sex, age and immigrant status of youth. [...] In these tables, the demographic, or baseline, model (Model 1) shows the effects of age, sex, immigrant status, and family composition on the chances of youth reporting property and violent delinquency in the previous year. [...] The second model in Table 1 and Table 2 added four school-related variables to the demographic model in order to assess whether or not commitment to school and perceptions of the school environment are associated with self-reported youth delinquency net of the demographic characteristics. [...] The addition of school-related variables reduced the strength of association between the demographic characteristics and the likelihood of reporting property and violent delinquency.