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 White paper on crime 2009 Part2/Chapter2/Section2 

Section 2  Arrest and Detention of Suspects

  Table 2-2-2-1 shows the number of persons arrested or detained for cases disposed by public prosecutors (limited to non-traffic penal code offenses and special act offenses excluding violations of road traffic related acts) by type of offense in 2008.
  The percentage of suspects in physical restraint cases (refers to cases in which suspects who were arrested by the police, etc. and referred to public prosecutors or arrested by public prosecutors; hereinafter the same in this section) among all suspects excluding juridical persons (the custody rate) was 30.4%. In addition, the detention request rate (refers to the percentage of suspects whom public prosecutors requested to be detained among suspects in physical restraint cases) was 93.1%.

Table 2-2-2-1  Number of persons arrested or detained for cases disposed by public prosecutors by type of offense (2008)

  Fig. 2-2-2-2 shows the detention request rejection rate (refers to the percentage of suspects for whom a request for detention was made but subsequently rejected among suspects for whom requests for detention were made) over the last 20 years. It has been on an increasing trend since 2003.

Fig. 2-2-2-2  Detention request rejection rate (1989-2008)