{"id":162,"date":"2017-04-24T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/?p=162"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:38:19","slug":"juvenile-crimes-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/archives\/162","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Crimes in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is an astonishing data. \u00a0I happened to know from a national report that juvenile crimes were rapidly decreasing in Japan. \u00a0Let me introduce simplified data here.<\/p>\n<p>Definition: Crimes committed by persons between 14 and 19 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Year \/ Number of Cases (unit: thousand) \/ Population Ratio (per 100,000)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1980 \/ 220 \/ 1500<\/li>\n<li>1990 \/ 180 \/ 1300<\/li>\n<li>2000 \/ 150 \/ 1400<\/li>\n<li>2010 \/ 100 \/ 1100<\/li>\n<li>2015 \/ 50 \/ 600<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has decreased by 50 percent just for five years! \u00a0Contrary to the case of increasing trend or shocking happenings, mass media hardly report such information.<\/p>\n<p>One of possible interpretations is that children have been closely monitored by more adults because of\u00a0the rapidly falling birth rate. \u00a0And you also could imagine there happened some change of the situation for bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan of recent decades, although thieves were quite rare in public spaces, it was not the case for bikes and umbrellas; they were almost regarded as common property, among people who took them at least. \u00a0Theft of umbrella is not enough to be arrested, but one of bike is. \u00a0And bike theft actually constitutes a principal part of juvenile crime numbers in Japan. \u00a0So you can suppose that improvement for bike parking system \u00a0in these years has contributed to the decrease in crimes\u00a0by teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the change of data is so drastic that we have to pay more attention to and\u00a0make more investigation for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Source<\/strong> [Japanese]: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hakusyo1.moj.go.jp\/jp\/63\/nfm\/mokuji.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u5e73\u621028\u5e74\u5ea6\u7248\u72af\u7f6a\u767d\u66f8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[E0005\/170424]<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an astonishing data. \u00a0I happened to know from a national report that juvenile crimes were rapidly decreasing in Japan. \u00a0Let me introduce simplified data here. 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