Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the CrisisGesine Foljanty-Jost How to explain juvenile delinquent behaviour in the Japan of the nineties? Are its reasons really fundamentally different from those in other societies? Juvenile Delinquency in Japan, written by leading Japanese and German scholars, for the first time looks comprehensively into the phenomenon. It does so from a variety of disciplines; law, sociology, education, and Japanese studies. Thus it explores the legal provisions, conditions of schooling, family life, and social change in society as a framework for understanding delinquent behaviour in Japanese high school students. It becomes clear that reasons for delinquency are the same in Japan as in other societies. Fundamentally different, however, are the high sensitivity to delinquent behaviour and the tremendous efforts to prevent nonconformist behaviour. |
Contents
The Japanese Triangle for Preventing Adolescent Delin | 19 |
Public Perceptions and Discourse on Deviance | 51 |
Changes in Values and Life Orientation among Japanese Youth | 75 |
Changes in School Environment and DeviancyA Survey | 91 |
Inequality in Family Background as a Reason for Juvenile | 115 |
The Reform of the Japanese Education System as an Answer | 143 |
The Debate about the Reform of the Juvenile Law in Japan | 173 |
Counseling Systems as a Means of Preventing Delinquency | 199 |
The Juvenile Training Schools of JapanTeaching Young | 221 |
Problem Behavior and Social Control in Japans Junior High | 253 |
List of Contributors | 267 |
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Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "crisis" Gesine Foljanty-Jost No preview available - 2003 |
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