3 Awareness of the level of disposition and attitudes after the disposition
Fig. 7-4-3-6 shows the answers to the questions concerning awareness of their most recent dispositions and attitudes after the dispositions of juvenile delinquents/young offenders with a history of protective measures or criminal dispositions by their history of dispositions. First, examining the awareness of the level of disposition (Fig. 7-4-3-6 [1]) revealed that with both juvenile delinquents and young offenders the proportion of those that regarded the disposition to be “heavy” was high with those that received institutional treatment (63.4% with juvenile delinquents with regard to commitment to a juvenile training school, 51.8% with young offenders with regard to commitment to a juvenile training school, and 44.6% with young offenders with regard to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence), whereas the proportion of those that regarded commitment to a juvenile training school to be heavy was lower with young offenders than with juvenile delinquents. In contrast to this, the proportion of those that regarded community-based treatment as “light” was relatively high (16.9% with juvenile delinquents with regard to probation, 23.7% with young offenders with regard to probation (while juveniles), 14.5% with young offenders with regard to fine, and 13.9% of young offenders with regard to imprisonment with suspension of execution of the sentence), while the proportion of those that regarded probation while juveniles as “light” also tended to be higher with young offenders.
Next, examining their attitudes after their last disposition (Fig. 7-4-3-6 [2]) revealed that approximately 60% (60.6%) of juvenile delinquents that received commitment to a juvenile treatment school answered that they “lived an honest life and made efforts to be rehabilitated,” with no significant difference in the proportion with young offenders that received institutional treatment (65.2% with young offenders with regard to commitment to a juvenile training school and 64.3% with young offenders with regard to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence). In contrast to this, the proportion of those that selected “did not live honestly enough” after receiving dispositions was less than 5% (4.2%) with juvenile delinquents that received commitment to a juvenile training school. However, with young offenders 10.7% with regard to commitment to a juvenile treatment school and 14.3% with regard to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence selected that item, thus indicating the proportion of those that were deemed to have been less motivated to be rehabilitated, even after receiving institutional treatment, tended to become higher. Similar trends were also observed with community-based treatment. With juvenile delinquents over half (53.5%) selected “lived an honest life and made efforts to be rehabilitated” after receiving their most recent period of probation, whereas with young offenders the proportion of those that selected that item with regard to probation while juveniles was low at 34.3%, and the proportion of those that selected “did not live honestly enough” high (5.0% with juvenile offenders with regard to probation and 19.3% with young offenders with regard to the same disposition). In addition, the proportion of those that did not display a sincere attitude toward reformation/rehabilitation was high with those with regard to fine or imprisonment with suspension of execution of the sentence. Examining the awareness of the level of dispositions and attitudes after the dispositions revealed that the proportion of juvenile delinquents that answered “did not live honestly enough” was the highest with those that regarded the disposition as “light,” followed by those that regarded it as “moderate,” and then those that regarded it as “heavy.” In addition, with those with one history of protective measure/criminal disposition, regardless of being juvenile delinquents or young offenders, the proportion that answered “did not live honestly enough” was higher with those that regarded the depositions as “light” than with those that regarded them as “heavy.”
In general, juvenile delinquents generally took protective measures more seriously and tended to make the effort to be rehabilitated, and therefore the dispositions were assumed to have affected their internal attitudes more significantly. In contrast to this, a relatively large number of young offenders with a history of protective measures did not take the dispositions seriously enough and had inappropriate attitudes after the dispositions.
Fig. 7-4-3-6 Awareness of level of disposition and attitudes after disposition of juvenile delinquents/young offenders by history of dispositions (protective measures/criminal dispositions)
