Juvenile delinquency in Japan : reconsidering the "crisis" / edited by Gesine Foljanty-Jost.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foljanty-Jost, Gesine.

Series:

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 18.

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--Japan.

Juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile delinquency--Japan--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Contents; Introduction; Juvenile Delinquency in Japan-Reconsidering the "Crisis"; The "Japanese Triangle" for Preventing Adolescent Delinquency-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Family-School Adolescent Relationship from a Comparative Perspective; Youth in Crisis: Public Perceptions and Discourse on Deviance and Juvenile Problem Behavior in Japan; Changes in Values and Life Orientation among Japanese Youth; Changes in School Environment and Deviancy-A Survey Analysis and an Intervention Program for Schools; Repression of Deviancy as a Reason for New Deviancy

Inequality in Family Background as a Reason for Juvenile DelinquencyYouth Deviant Behaviour, Conflict, and Later Consequences: Comparison of Working and Middle Class Communities in Japan; The Reform of the Japanese Education System as an Answer to Delinquency; The Debate about the Reform of the Juvenile Law in Japan; Counseling Systems as a Means of Preventing Delinquency; The Revival of Local Networks for Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency; The Juvenile Training Schools of Japan-Teaching Young Serious Offenders How to Live and "How to Be"

Problem Behavior and Social Control in Japan's Junior High SchoolsList of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46779-7

9786610467792

1-4237-1435-0

90-474-0256-1

OCLC:

191039374

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047402565 DOI