Workshop IV: Characteristics of Offenders of Crime Related to Insurance and the Effective Measures for Their Treatment (From Report for 1987 and Resource Material Series No. 33, P 264-284, 1988, Hideo Utsuro, ed. -- See NCJ-124255)

• NCJ Number: 124266
• Author(s): P Puapatanakul
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 21 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: Japan

Annotation

This paper profiles offenders who have committed insurance crimes and reviews the institutional treatment for such offenders in Japan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.

Abstract

A review of Japan's, Thailand's, Saudi Arabia's, and Indonesia's classification and treatment of inmates, with a particular focus on those who have committed insurance crimes, indicates that treatment methods vary from country to country. Japan has the most sophisticated classification system, which is based on medical, psychological, educational, sociological and other assessments of offenders. Case studies show how the classification system was applied in Japan for various types of insurance-crime offenders. Insurance offenses can be categorized as intellectual crimes requiring sophisticated techniques and technology or violent crimes that often involve gangster accomplices. For the intellectual offender, new methods must be devised both for sentencing and treatment (institutional and noninstitutional). For violent offenders, traditional sentencing, classification, and treatment methods may be adequate. Appended workshop-participant questionnaire.