Samenvatting

This study examines the entire population of over three million young people living in the Netherlands and their entire networks of family members, household members, neighbors, classmates and colleagues. These networks are derived from administrative registers using a new method and depict formally registered relations. Young people have a higher probability of being registered as a suspect by the police if the proportion of suspects in their networks is larger. Previous studies have mainly been based on a small number of young people and network members and have focused on specific types of networks. This is the first time that the correlation in crime between network members and Dutch young people has been established on such a large scale.