Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis" (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

juvenile delinquency in japan: reconsidering the "crisis" (brill's japanese studies library)

Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis" (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

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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.

About the Author
Gesine Foljanty-Jost, Dr. phil (1986) in Political Science, Free University of Berlin, is Professor of Japanese Studies at Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg. She has published extensively on Japanese policy-making and education.

Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis" (Brill's Japanese Studies Library),Gesine Foljanty-Jost,Brill Academic Publishers,9004132538,Criminology,General,Interior Design - General,Japan,Juvenile delinquency,Prevention,Social Science,Sociology,Asian studies,Juvenile offenders,c 1990 to c 2000

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