PART 1  Crime Trends in 2007

Chapter 1  Overview of Penal Code Offenses

Section 1  Principal Data

  The principal data on penal code offenses in 2007 are as follows.
Principal data on penal code offenses, 2007
                                                                                                    (year-on-year change)
[1]  Number of reported cases
Penal code offenses                                            2,690,883          (–186,144)      (–6.5%)
Non-traffic penal code offenses                           1,909,270          (–141,959)     (–6.9%)
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft       479,314            (–37,387)      (–7.2%)

[2]  Number of cleared cases
Penal code offenses                                             1,387,405           (–79,429)      (–5.4%)
Non-traffic penal code offenses                              605,792            (–35,244)      (–5.5%)
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft        210,549           (–14,206)      (–6.3%)

[3]  Number of persons cleared
Penal code offenses                                             1,184,336            (–57,022)      (–4.6%)
Non-traffic penal code offenses                              366,002            (–18,628)      (–4.8%)
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft        185,556           (–11,420)       (–5.8%)

[4]  Crime rate
Penal code offenses                                                 2,106.0     (–145.7 points)
Non-traffic penal code offenses                               1,494.3     (–111.1 points)
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft            375.1       (–29.3 points)

[5]  Clearance rate
Penal code offenses                                                   51.6%         (+0.6 points)
Non-traffic penal code offenses                                 31.7%         (+0.5 points)
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft          43.9%          (+0.4 points)

  (Sources: Criminal Statistics by National Police Agency and population data
by the Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)

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

Fig. 1-1-1-1  Number of reported cases and persons cleared for penal code offenses (1946–2007)