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PART 1  Crime Trends in 2008

Chapter 1  Penal Code Offenses

Section 1  Principal Data

  The principal data on penal code offenses in 2008 are as follows.

Principal data on penal code offenses, 2008
                                                                                    (Year-on-year change)   [Change from 1989]
[1] Number of reported cases
Penal code offenses                                         2,533,351     (–157,532,       –5.9%)         [+12.0%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses                          1,818,374    (–90,896,        –4.8%)          [+8.7%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft     445,534       (–33,780,        –7.0%)         [+134.9%]

[2] Number of cleared cases
Penal code offenses                                          1,288,720     (–98,685,       –7.1%)         [–5.3%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses                          573,743       (–32,049,       –5.3%)         [–25.7%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft     193,904       (–16,645,       –7.9%)          [+26.6%]

[3] Number of persons cleared
Penal code offenses                                          1,081,955     (–102,381,      –8.6%)         [+15.8%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses                          340,100        (–25,902,      –7.1%)         [+8.7%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft     165,362        (–20,194,       –10.9%)        [+40.6%]

[4] Crime rate
Penal code offenses                                           1,984.0            (–122.1 points)       [+148.7 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses                           1,424.0            (–70.3 points)        [+65.9 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft       348.9              (–26.2 points)       [+195.0 points]

[5] Clearance rate
Penal code offenses                                            50.9%                (–0.7 points)         [–9.3 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses                            31.6%               (–0.2 points)         [–14.6 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft       43.5%                (–0.4 points)        [–37.2 points]

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

  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 (1946–2008)