PART 5  Crime Victims

Chapter 1  Actual Conditions of Crime Victims

Section 1  Damage by Crime in Official Statistics

1 Number of offenses involving human victims

  Fig. 5-1-1-1 shows the number of reported cases for non-traffic penal code offenses involving human victims (excluding cases in which victims are corporations or other organizations and bodies) and their victim rate (the rate of reported cases involving human victims per 100,000 persons) over the last 10 years.
  The number of reported cases and victim rate both have been decreasing/declining since 2003. In 2007, the victim rate involving male victims was higher by more than 800 points than that involving female victims.
  In this chapter, “victims” means “persons who have suffered damage from the offense”. In this sense, even in the case of offenses understood as being committed against society or the state such as arson or obstruction of official duties, persons such as owners of the houses placed on fire or assaulted public officials shall be included as victims.

Fig. 5-1-1-1  Number of reported cases for non-traffic penal code offenses involving human victims and their victim rate (1998–2007)