WHITE PAPER ON CRIME 2018

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PART 1 Crime Trends

Chapter 1 Penal Code Offenses

Section 1 Overview

Fig. 1-1-1-1Fig. 1-1-1-1 Penal Code offenses: reported cases, cleared persons and clearance rate

Fig. 1-1-1-2Fig. 1-1-1-2 Penal Code offenses: composition ratio of age groups of cleared persons (total/female)

Section 2 Penal Code Offenses

Fig. 1-1-2-1Fig. 1-1-2-1 Penal Code offenses : reported/cleared cases and clearance rate (theft/Penal Code offenses excluding theft)

Fig. 1-1-2-2Fig. 1-1-2-2 Rape: reported/cleared cases and clearance rate

Fig. 1-1-2-3Fig. 1-1-2-3 Forcible indecency: reported/cleared cases and clearance rate

Fig. 1-1-2-4Fig. 1-1-2-4 Major Penal Code offenses: reported/cleared cases and clearance rate

Fig. 1-1-2-5Fig. 1-1-2-5 Special fraud: reported/cleared cases and amount of damages

Chapter 2 Special Acts Offenses

Section 1 Overview

Fig. 1-2-1-1Fig. 1-2-1-1 Special Acts offenses: persons received by public prosecutors

Section 2 Special Acts Offenses in Categories

Fig. 1-2-2-1Fig. 1-2-2-1 Major Special Acts offenses: persons received by public prosecutors

PART 2 Treatment of Offenders

Chapter 1 Overview

Fig. 2-1-1Fig. 2-1-1 Outline of treatment of offenders

Chapter 2 Prosecution

Section 1 Receptions

Fig. 2-2-1-1Fig. 2-2-1-1 Persons received by public prosecutors: composition ratio of types of offenses

Section 2 Dispositions

Fig. 2-2-2-1Fig. 2-2-2-1 Persons disposed by public prosecutors office: composition ratio of types of dispositions and number of persons prosecuted for trial, etc.

Fig. 2-2-2-2Fig. 2-2-2-2 Persons prosecuted/not prosecuted

Table 2-2-2-3Table 2-2-2-3 Persons not prosecuted (by the reason)

Chapter 3 Courts

Section 1 Finalized Judgment

Table 2-3-1-1Table 2-3-1-1 Persons whose cases have been finalized (by types of judgments)

Section 2 Courts of First Instance

Table 2-3-2-1Table 2-3-2-1 Persons disposed at courts of first instance (by types of offenses and by types of judgments)

Table 2-3-2-2Table 2-3-2-2 Persons sentenced to imprisonment at courts of first instance

Table 2-3-2-3Table 2-3-2-3 Persons received by/disposed at courts of first instance in Saiban-in trials (by types of offenses)

Section 3 Appeals

Table 2-3-3-1Table 2-3-3-1 Persons disposed at courts of second instance (by types of offenses and by types of judgments)

Chapter 4 Institutional Corrections of Adult Offenders

Section 1 Inmates in Penal Institutions

Fig. 2-4-1-1Fig. 2-4-1-1 Year-end inmate population of penal institutions and rate per population

Fig. 2-4-1-2Fig. 2-4-1-2 New sentenced inmate population and rate per population

Fig. 2-4-1-3Fig. 2-4-1-3 New sentenced inmates: composition ratio of age groups (male/female)

Fig. 2-4-1-4Fig. 2-4-1-4 New sentenced inmates: composition ratio of types of offenses (male/female)

Section 2 Treatment of Sentenced Inmates

Table 2-4-2-1Table 2-4-2-1 Sentenced inmates by treatment indexes

Table 2-4-2-2Table 2-4-2-2 Sentenced inmates in a special guidance for reform

Chapter 5 Rehabilitation Services

Section 1 Parole

Fig. 2-5-1-1Fig. 2-5-1-1 Released sentenced inmates and parole rate

Fig. 2-5-1-2Fig. 2-5-1-2 Inmates who are sentenced to imprisonment for a determinate term and granted release on parole, by the ratio of sentence served and by the terms of sentence

Section 2 Probation/Parole Supervision

Fig. 2-5-2-1Fig. 2-5-2-1 Probationers/parolees newly placed under probation/parole supervision and probation rate

Fig. 2-5-2-2Fig. 2-5-2-2 Probationers/parolees newly placed under probation/parole supervision: composition ratio of age groups

Table 2-5-2-3Table 2-5-2-3 Probationers/parolees in a specialized treatment program

Section 3 Volunteer Probation Officers and Halfway Houses

Fig. 2-5-3-1Fig. 2-5-3-1 Volunteer probation officers (VPOs), their average age and ratio of female VPOs

Fig. 2-5-3-2Fig. 2-5-3-2 Volunteer probation officers: composition ratio of age groups and occupations

Fig. 2-5-3-3Fig. 2-5-3-3 Persons newly entrusted to halfway houses

PART 3 Trends in Juvenile Delinquencies and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents

Chapter 1 Trends in Juvenile Delinquencies

Section 1 Penal Code Offenses Committed by Juveniles

Fig. 3-1-1-1Fig. 3-1-1-1 Penal Code offenses, dangerous driving causing death or injury, and negligent driving offenses causing death or injury: juveniles cleared and rate per population

Section 2 Special Acts Offenses Committed by Juveniles

Fig. 3-1-2-1Fig. 3-1-2-1 Special Acts offenses: juveniles cleared

Chapter 2 Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents

Section 1 Overview

Fig. 3-2-1-1Fig. 3-2-1-1 Outline of treatment of juvenile delinquents

Section 2 Prosecution / Courts

Fig. 3-2-2-1Fig. 3-2-2-1 Juvenile offenders received by public prosecutors: composition ratio of types of offenses by age groups

Fig. 3-2-2-2Fig. 3-2-2-2 Juvenile protection cases: juveniles received by family courts

Section 3 Juvenile Classification Homes

Fig. 3-2-3-1Fig. 3-2-3-1 Juveniles newly committed to juvenile classification homes (male/female) and female ratio

Section 4 Juvenile Training Schools

Fig. 3-2-4-1Fig. 3-2-4-1 Juveniles newly committed to juvenile training schools (male/female) and female ratio

Fig. 3-2-4-2Fig. 3-2-4-2 Juveniles newly committed to juvenile training schools: number and rate per population, by age groups

Fig. 3-2-4-3Fig. 3-2-4-3 Juveniles newly committed to juvenile training schools: composition ratio of types of delinquencies by age groups (male/female)

Section 5 Probation/Parole Supervision for Juveniles

Fig. 3-2-5-1Fig. 3-2-5-1 Juveniles placed under probation/parole supervision

Table 3-2-5-2Table 3-2-5-2 Juvenile probationers/juvenile training school parolees, by treatment categories

Chapter 3 Criminal Procedure for Juveniles

PART 4 Specific Types of Offenses / Offenders

Chapter 1 Traffic Offenses

Section 1 Occurrence of Traffic Accident

Fig. 4-1-1-1Fig. 4-1-1-1 Traffic accidents: accidents occurred and persons killed/injured

Section 2 Road Traffic-related Violations

Fig. 4-1-2-1Fig. 4-1-2-1 Road traffic-related violations: referred cases

Chapter 2 Drug Offenses

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

Fig. 4-2-1-1Fig. 4-2-1-1 Stimulants Control Act violations: persons cleared

Fig. 4-2-1-2Fig. 4-2-1-2 Stimulants Control Act violations: persons cleared, by age groups

Fig. 4-2-1-3Fig. 4-2-1-3 Cannabis and other drug violations: persons cleared

Table 4-2-1-4Table 4-2-1-4 New psychoactive substance: persons cleared, by types of regulations

Section 2 Treatment of Drug Offenders

Fig. 4-2-2-1Fig. 4-2-2-1 Stimulants Control Act violations: new sentenced inmates

Chapter 3 Organized Crime

Section 1 Trends in Organized Crime Groups

Table 4-3-1-1Table 4-3-1-1 Members/quasi-members of Boryokudan

Section 2 Trends in Offenses

Fig. 4-3-2-1Fig. 4-3-2-1 Members of Boryokudan cleared (Penal Code offenses/Special Acts offenses)

Chapter 4 Financial and Economic Offenses

Section 1 Tax-related Offenses

Fig. 4-4-1-1Fig. 4-4-1-1 Tax violations: persons received by public prosecutors

Section 2 Economic Offenses

Fig. 4-4-2-1Fig. 4-4-2-1 Obstruction of compulsory executions, etc.: persons received by public prosecutors

Fig. 4-4-2-2Fig. 4-4-2-2 Violations of Companies Act/Commercial Code, etc.: persons received by public prosecutors

Fig. 4-4-2-3Fig. 4-4-2-3 Violations of Investment Act, etc.: persons received by public prosecutors

Section 3 Intellectual Property-related Offenses

Fig. 4-4-3-1Fig. 4-4-3-1 Trademark Act and Copyright Act violations: persons received by public prosecutors

Chapter 5 Cybercrime

Table 4-5-1Table 4-5-1 Cybercrime: cleared cases

Table 4-5-2Table 4-5-2 Offenses using cyber network: cleared cases

Chapter 6 Child Abuse, Spousal Offenses and Stalking-related Crimes

Section 1 Child Abuse

Fig. 4-6-1-1Fig. 4-6-1-1 Child abuse: cases/persons cleared, by types of offenses

Section 2 Spousal Offenses

Fig. 4-6-2-1Fig. 4-6-2-1 Penal Code offenses: cleared cases of spousal offenses, by types of offenses

Section 3 Stalking-related Crimes

Fig. 4-6-3-1Fig. 4-6-3-1 Stalking cases: cleared cases, by types of offenses

Chapter 7 Offenses by Women

Fig. 4-7-1Fig. 4-7-1 Penal Code offenses (female): cleared persons and female ratio

Fig. 4-7-2Fig. 4-7-2 New female sentenced inmates (by types of offense) and female ratio

Chapter 8 Offenses by the Elderly

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

Fig. 4-8-1-1Fig. 4-8-1-1 Penal Code offenses: persons cleared by age groups and elderly ratio (total/female)

Fig. 4-8-1-2Fig. 4-8-1-2 Penal Code offenses: rate per population of persons cleared, by age groups (total/female)

Fig. 4-8-1-3Fig. 4-8-1-3 Penal Code offenses: composition ratio of types of offenses committed by elderly persons cleared (male/female)

Fig. 4-8-1-4Fig. 4-8-1-4 Penal Code offenses: rate per population of persons cleared, by age groups and types of offenses

Section 2 Imprisonment of Elderly Offenders

Fig. 4-8-2-1Fig. 4-8-2-1 New elderly sentenced inmates and elderly ratio, by age groups (total/female)

Chapter 9 Offenses by Foreign Nationals

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

Fig. 4-9-1-1Fig. 4-9-1-1 Penal Code offenses by foreigners: cases/persons cleared

Fig. 4-9-1-2Fig. 4-9-1-2 Special Acts offenses by foreigners: cases/persons cleared

Section 2 Treatment

Fig. 4-9-2-1Fig. 4-9-2-1 Visiting foreign nationals received by public prosecutors, by nationality

Fig. 4-9-2-2Fig. 4-9-2-2 New F-class sentenced inmates (male/female)

Chapter 10 Offenses by Those with Mental Disorders

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

Table 4-10-1_1Table 4-10-1-1 Penal Code offenses by persons with mental disorders, etc.: persons cleared by types of offenses

Section 2 Medical Care and Treatment System for Mentally Ill

Table 4-10-2_1Table 4-10-2-1 Persons for whom public prosecutors applied for a hearing and whose cases were disposed of at district court hearings, by types of designated act

Chapter 11 Offenses by Public Officials

Table 4-11-1Table 4-11-1 Acceptance of bribes: persons received/disposed by public prosecutors office

PART 5 Repeat Offenders

Chapter 1 Cleared Offenders

Fig. 5-1-1Fig. 5-1-1 Penal Code offenses: repeat offenders among persons cleared, and ratio of repeat offender

Fig. 5-1-2Fig. 5-1-2 Penal Code offenses: composition ratio of cleared persons with/without previous convictions, by types of offenses

Chapter 2 Prosecution

Table 5-2-1Table 5-2-1 The number and ratio of ex-convicts among persons prosecuted (by types of offenses)

Chapter 3 Correction

Section 1 Reimprisoned Inmate

Fig. 5-3-1-1Fig. 5-3-1-1 Reimprisoned inmates among new sentenced inmates, and ratio of reimprisoned inmates (total/female)

Section 2 Reimprisonment of Released Sentenced Inmates

Fig. 5-3-2-1Fig. 5-3-2-1 Percentages of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates, by reasons for the previous release

Fig. 5-3-2-2Fig. 5-3-2-2 Percentages of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates, by the number of time(s) imprisoned

Fig. 5-3-2-3Fig. 5-3-2-3 Percentages of reimprisonment within 5 years after the release, by reasons for the previous release and types of offenses

Fig. 5-3-2-4Fig. 5-3-2-4 Percentages of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates, by reasons for the previous release

Fig. 5-3-2-5Fig. 5-3-2-5 Percentages of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates within 2 years after the release, by male/female, age groups and types of offenses

Chapter 4 Probation/Parole Supervision

Section 1 Probationers and Parolees with Previous Convictions

Fig. 5-4-1-1Fig. 5-4-1-1 Probationers/parolees newly placed under probation/parole supervision, with/without previous conviction and ratio of previously convicted persons

Section 2 Redisposition or Revocation during Probation / Parole Supervision

Fig. 5-4-2-1Fig. 5-4-2-1 Redisposition/revocation rates of probationers/parolees

PART 6 Crime Victims

Chapter 1 Crime Victimization

Section 1 Number of Cases Involving Human Victims

Fig. 6-1-1-1Fig. 6-1-1-1 Penal Code offenses: cases reported, involving human victims and victimization rate (male/female)

Section 2 Relationship between Victims and Suspects

Fig. 6-1-2-1Fig. 6-1-2-1 Penal Code offenses: composition ratio of relationship between the victim and the suspect (by types of offenses)

Chapter 2 Victims in Criminal Justice Process

Table 6-2-1Table 6-2-1 Victim participation at the courts of first instance and measures applied

Table 6-2-2Table 6-2-2 Measures for victims/witnesses applied