Why is Crime rate in Japan low?
It’s well known that the crime rate in Japan is really low.
Murders per 100,000.
1. Russia Federation 18.072.
United States 6.323.
Malaysia 2.73
Taiwan 1.17
Spain 1.08
Japan 0.58
Rape per 100,000.
1. United States 34.20
2. England and Wales 14.69
3. France 13.38
Taiwan 8.82
South Korea 4.38
Spain 3.23
Japan 1.48
Serious Assault per 100,000.
1. Australia 713.68
2. England & Wales 405.20
3. United States 357.94
Taiwan 37.30 Spain 23.94
Japan 15.40
Robbery/Violent Theft per 100,000.
1. Spain 169.85
2. United States 169.02 3.
France 144.10
Taiwan 14.35
South Korea 11.74
Japan 2.71
From The Analysis and Comparison on Statistics of Criminal Cases in Various Countries
http://www.moi.gov.tw/W3/stat/english/etopic/89criminal.htm
Once again, why is the crime rate this low?
I have asked some Japanese at my lab why they think that crime rate is that low. The answer is that they could never imagine taking something from someone or hurting someone. They are raised not to.The family is important here in Japan, you are dependent of you family and you family depends on you when you get old. Respect is one of the first things that is to be taught at school.
Does it mean that we don’t raise our kids in Europe well enough?
Since I arrived here, I haven’t broken one single rule. To cross the street when the light is red would be one of the things I’d never do here. I would feel like dead woman walking across the street…
Families and society are important when it comes to reducing crime. To invest capital by giving more police would not necessary mean that the crime rate would fall automatically. But to invest some kind of human capital would maybe give a better chance to reduce the amount of crime. That is what we can learn from Japan.
Murders per 100,000.
1. Russia Federation 18.072.
United States 6.323.
Malaysia 2.73
Taiwan 1.17
Spain 1.08
Japan 0.58
Rape per 100,000.
1. United States 34.20
2. England and Wales 14.69
3. France 13.38
Taiwan 8.82
South Korea 4.38
Spain 3.23
Japan 1.48
Serious Assault per 100,000.
1. Australia 713.68
2. England & Wales 405.20
3. United States 357.94
Taiwan 37.30 Spain 23.94
Japan 15.40
Robbery/Violent Theft per 100,000.
1. Spain 169.85
2. United States 169.02 3.
France 144.10
Taiwan 14.35
South Korea 11.74
Japan 2.71
From The Analysis and Comparison on Statistics of Criminal Cases in Various Countries
http://www.moi.gov.tw/W3/stat/english/etopic/89criminal.htm
Once again, why is the crime rate this low?
I have asked some Japanese at my lab why they think that crime rate is that low. The answer is that they could never imagine taking something from someone or hurting someone. They are raised not to.The family is important here in Japan, you are dependent of you family and you family depends on you when you get old. Respect is one of the first things that is to be taught at school.
Does it mean that we don’t raise our kids in Europe well enough?
Since I arrived here, I haven’t broken one single rule. To cross the street when the light is red would be one of the things I’d never do here. I would feel like dead woman walking across the street…
Families and society are important when it comes to reducing crime. To invest capital by giving more police would not necessary mean that the crime rate would fall automatically. But to invest some kind of human capital would maybe give a better chance to reduce the amount of crime. That is what we can learn from Japan.
posted by Diana Chavlah at 8:05 p.m.
1 Comments:
A major part of my research in Japan was on Japanese youth crime. One of the things that drew me to Japan in the first place was a terrible spate of grisly murders by young people in the mid to late 1990s which provoked a widespread moral panic (see the film Battle Royale) - I wanted to understand what was going on.
The low crime rate in Japan is certainly something to be explained and there are various theories for it. What I argued in my paper was that the generally low level of crime is achieved via widespread repression. Crime being the price we pay for living in a free society, unfreedom is the price the Japanese pay for living in a (relatively) crime-free society. I found for instance that young people could be under direct or indirect surveillance every hour of the day, with parents, community groups, self-appointed moral wardens, schools, employers and police forming an impenetrable network of social control. I suggested this repression was one possible reason why, when youth crime did erupt, it did so in such a violent manner.
Things to check out if you're interested would include the "otaku" phenomenon (google it) and the purported links between violent/ pornographic manga and crime. Once you start to scratch below the surface of what looks like order, you start to see what a fucked up society Japan really is.
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