Youth Crime in Luxembourg

Typical cases from the daily work of Kurtz Detective Agency Luxembourg and Trier concern surveillance of and offences committed by young people, dealing with drug use, drug trafficking, acquisitive crime and, in exceptional cases, prostitution. Property offences such as theft, burglary and robbery also occur. In Luxembourg there are several factors that exacerbate the problem of youth crime. Some of these are outlined below.

Language Barriers Early on Close Off Career Paths

Luxembourg is a melting pot of predominantly European cultures and languages. The school system is intended to help overcome the resulting language barriers, yet the language instruction introduced in schools (German, French and English) still leaves many immigrant children struggling. Compulsory education lasts 12 years, from age 4 to 16, but even the first stage (preparatory year) of primary education (ages 4–5) proved insufficient to prepare large immigrant populations for the following school years, which is why, since 1999, an additional pre-preparatory stage beginning at age 3 has been introduced.

 

After primary school ends at age 10 or 11, a commission – unlike in Germany – decides which secondary school the child will attend. Thus the life course of many Luxembourgers is determined externally. The commission’s decision often has a formative effect on later careers and can lead to frustration and a lack of prospects among pupils. This in turn frequently manifests itself in excessive readiness for violence and, consequently, in youth crime. Parents should not stand idly by if their children take the wrong path. If they are certain of misconduct, counselling centres should be consulted. If certainty is lacking but a bad feeling remains, our private detectives for Luxembourg are available to examine the suspicion: +49 651 2094 0060.

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Unlike in Germany, the educational path in Luxembourg is heavily determined by external decision-making – an important factor in the emergence of youth crime. The detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Luxembourg and Trierassist desperate parents and harmed victims.

Education Policy Creates a Two-Tier Society

Once in secondary school, it is difficult to change the educational track or to move to a higher level of education, for example from a vocational route to a technical lycée (comparable to a German Fachhochschulreife) or to the classical lycée (comparable to the general university entrance qualification). Foreign pupils whose primary language is French still find it harder to reach the classical lycée than German-speaking pupils. Year after year this leads to school dropouts and/or pupils failing to obtain training places.

 

These difficulties in the education system are among the main causes of rising crime – especially among young people. Primarily juvenile offenders fall into the police’s sights for drug offences and violent acts: in 2014 there were 601 cases of drug possession and consumption and 326 cases of bodily injury. Our detectives in Trier work both for victims and for the parents of at-risk youngsters: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-luxemburg.com.