PART 1 Crime Trends in 2010
Chapter 1 Penal Code Offenses

Section 1 Principal Data

The principal data on penal code offenses in 2010 is as follows.

Principal data on penal code offenses, 2010
  (Change from the previous year) [Change from 1991]
Note: With respect to negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc., the number of cleared cases is substituted for the number of reported cases.
Source: Criminal Statistics by National Police Agency The Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (population data)
[1] Reported cases
Penal code offenses 2,271,309 (-128,393, -5.4%) [-0.6%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses (included) 1,586,189 (-117,180, -6.9%) [-7.1%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft (included) 372,747 (-31,328, -7.8%) [+83.1%]
Negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc. (included) 685,120 (-11,213, -1.6%) [+18.8%]
[2] Cleared cases
Penal code offenses 1,182,809 (-58,548, -4.7%) [-3.9%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses (included) 497,689 (-47,335, -8.7%) [-24.0%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft (included) 169,903 (-13,152, -7.2%) [+5.8%]
[3] Persons cleared
Penal code offenses 1,023,537 (-28,301, -2.7%) [+13.8%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses (included) 322,956 (-10,249, -3.1%) [+9.0%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft (included) 147,742 (-9,640, -6.1%) [+17.1%]
Negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc. (included) 700,581 (-18,052, -2.5%) [+16.2%]
[4] Crime rate
Penal code offenses 1,773.7 (-108.3 points) [-67.1 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses 1,238.7 (-97.2 points) [-137.5 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft 291.1 (-25.8 points) [+127.0 points]
Negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc. 535.0 (-11.1 points) [+70.5 points]
[5] Clearance rate
Penal code offenses 52.1% (+0.3 points) [-1.8 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses 31.4% (-0.6 points) [-6.9 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft 45.6% (+0.3 points) [-33.3 points]

Fig. 1-1-1-1 shows the number of reported cases, number of persons cleared, and clearance rate for penal code offenses since 1946 (See Appendix 1-1).

Fig. 1-1-1-1 Number of reported cases, persons cleared, and clearance rate for penal code offenses (1946-2010)

Fig. 1-1-1-1