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Since Japanese people live in a high-context society, the influence of the social environment is large. Using this context, this paper focused on relationships with others for deterring crimes and delinquency.
Showing my research in high school students in Japan, I insisted that not only self-control but also bond such as attachment to parents/school and belief influenced delinquency. In addition, I pointed out the recent trend that not only antisocial but also asocial people engage in crime. Dividing four patterns of relationships of individuals to intimates and mainstream society, I discussed measures for deterring crimes for each pattern.
The key is whether or not criminals and delinquents find values to have positive relationships to the mainstream society and whether or not they feel to be able to be reintegrated to the mainstream society. Since human relationships are reciprocally constructed, the mission of society to reduce crime is to establish an attractive society where (potential) criminals and delinquents can cooperate with others and realize their desires more easily in mainstream society than outside of that society. I referred to the recent Japanese government countermeasure for the mission.
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Fujino, K. (2018). Analysis of Current Criminals in Japan Based on Typology of Relationships with Others. In: Liu, J., Miyazawa, S. (eds) Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan. Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69359-0_9
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