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 White paper on crime 2005 Part4/Chapter4/Section4/1 

Section4 Treatment of Delinquents in Juvenile Training Schools

1 Outline of juvenile training schools

  A juvenile training school is an institution that receives juveniles who are committed to it by family courts under a protective measure,as well as juvenile inmates(seeChapter1(4)-b.of this Part)in order to give them correctional education.
  As of April1,2005,there are53juvenile training schools(including one branch school)nationwide.
  Each school has a vice-superintendent,a general affairs section,a medical section,and a Principal Specialist under its superintendent.The Principal Specialist is the head of the education department,which directly conducts correctional education,and is supported by two to four Chief Specialists according to the scale of the school.
  Fig.4-4-4-1 shows how many staff officials have teacher's licenses and vocational training-related instructor's licenses.

Fig.4-4-4-1  Number of staff officials of juvenile training schools who have licenses(as of May31,2005