4 Complicity cases

  Among 590,351 cases cleared (excluding cases where it was confirmed as a result of investigation that the act in question did not constitute a crime or that the conditions for prosecution or punishment were not satisfied; hereinafter the same in this subsection) for non-traffic penal code offenses (excluding dangerous driving causing death or injury in connection with traffic accidents; hereinafter the same in this subsection) in 2007, 479,669 cases (81.3% of the total) were committed by a sole perpetrator and 110,682 cases (18.7%) were in complicity. The complicity rate (the rate of cases committed in complicity among total cases; hereinafter the same in this subsection) was 25.3% for cases by juveniles only, higher than that for cases by adults only (16.2%) (Source: Criminal Statistics by National Police Agency).
  Fig. 4-1-1-12 shows the percent distribution of non-traffic penal code offenses committed by only juveniles in 2007, by number of perpetrators and type of offense.
  Among cases committed by only juveniles, the complicity rate was highest for robbery (57.7%), followed by extortion (55.9%) and injury (34.4%), showing much higher rates than those for cases committed by only adults (robbery - 19.0%, extortion - 36.9%, and injury - 11.0%). The rate of cases committed in complicity with four or more persons was highest for robbery (13.2%).

Fig. 4-1-1-12  Percent distribution of non-traffic penal code offenses of juveniles cases, by type of offense and number of perpetrators (2007)