NCJ Number
191277
Date Published
2001
Length
339 pages
Annotation
This report describes recent trends in crime, prosecution, corrections, juvenile justice, victim services, and organized crime in Japan, as well as the current situation and countermeasures related to economic offenses.
Abstract
Results revealed that the number of penal code offenses increased more or less consistently since 1975 and reached a new postwar high of 2,906,051 reported offenses in 1999. The most common offense was larceny, followed by traffic professional negligence, embezzlement, property destruction, fraud, bodily injury, and extortion. The number of persons cleared for penal code offenses excluding traffic professional negligence has remained at around 300,000 since 1989. Correctional institutions held 56,133 inmates, including 45,606 convicted inmates, on December 31, 1999. The number of juveniles cleared for penal code offenses declined following 1984, increased after 1996, and declined again in 1999. The National Tax Administration made 148 accusations of violations of income tax law, accessions tax law, corporation tax law, and consumption tax law and transferred them to public prosecutors’ offices. Other violations involved the commercial code, anti-monopoly law, securities and exchange law, patent law, trademark law, copyright law, and unfair competition prevention law. The number of members of organized crime groups was about 83,100 on December 31, 1999, an increase of 1,800 from the previous year. Tables and figures