{"id":51,"date":"2017-04-01T23:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-04-01T23:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:34:38","slug":"recidivist-disabled-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/archives\/51","title":{"rendered":"Recidivist Disabled in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book Recidivist Disabled*<\/em> by YAMAMOTO Joji exposes a shocking situation of Japan today in which many disabled persons are socially and systematically made into “criminals.” \u00a0 The book was published firstly in 2006, and in 2009 as the paperback edition.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto shows that 3 of 10 inmates in Japan have an intellectual disability in the statistic data of 2004. \u00a0In addition, over 70% of inmates with intellectual disability are recidivists and 20% of them \u00a0are put in jail over 10 times. \u00a0How should we interpret these data?<\/p>\n

For this kind of data, many people tend to believe that the intellectual disabled should \u00a0be unable to \u00a0recognize the social morality, and so be a threat to the social order. \u00a0In fact, the murder case \u00a0which \u00a0“a man with a lesser panda cap,” who were reported as mildly intellectually disabled,\u00a0committed in 2001 pervasively evoked such interpretation. \u00a0The author \u00a0reveals\u00a0\u00a0how much ignorance and prejudice it involves.<\/p>\n

The phrase “over 10 recidivation” may be seemingly monstrous; but on the other hand it means that the crimes are so petty. \u00a0If it were so serious, he\/she could not commit crimes so many times because she\/he should stay in prison for a long time.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto \u00a0points out that inmates with disability committed offenses such as shoplifting or dine-and-dash because they could not help in order to survive. \u00a0The “antisocial” behavior is caused by insufficiency of social welfare in Japan today.<\/p>\n

In fact, as Yamamoto says,\u00a0\u00a0in cases of petty crimes committed by the disable, legal judgement depends on whether he\/she has his\/her caretaker or not. \u00a0Prisons virtually functions as a substitute of social welfare.<\/p>\n

This is only an abstract. \u00a0You should \u00a0feel more depressed if you read concrete and minute descriptions of the facts in this book.<\/p>\n

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