White Paper on Crime 2022 Part3/Chapter2/Section4/2

2 Treatment provided in juvenile training schools

The Act Partially Amending the Juvenile Act and Related Acts (Act No. 47 of 2022) amended the Juvenile Training School Act, which added a new class (Class 5) of juvenile training schools on April 1, 2022.

(1) Classes of juvenile training schools and correctional education curriculum

Juvenile training schools fall under the following five classes and each juvenile training school accommodates, according to the designated class, the following persons categorized based on age, level of criminal tendency, mental and/or physical condition, etc.:

• (i) Class 1Persons who are subject to execution of protective measures (excluding those categorized as (v). The same applies to (ii) and (iii).) and do not have serious physical or mental disorders and are about 12 years of age or older but younger than 23 years of age (excluding those categorized as (ii));
• (ii) Class 2Persons who are subject to execution of protective measures and whose criminal tendency is more serious, who do not have serious physical or mental disorders and who are about 16 years of age or older but younger than 23 years of age;
• (iii) Class 3Persons who are subject to execution of protective measures and have any serious physical or mental disorder and are about 12 years of age or older but younger than 26 years of age;
• (iv) Class 4Persons who are subject to execution of their sentence at juvenile training schools; and
• (v) Class 5Specified juveniles under two-year probation who failed to comply with the probation rules to be observed, and who are referred to a juvenile training school by a family court because the failure was so serious that the educational and supervisory measures of probation were not sufficient to improve or rehabilitate them.

Correctional education curriculums are designated for each juvenile training school to conduct correctional education in a systematic and organized manner. A correctional education curriculum is determined according to [1] types of inmates who fall under certain common characteristics in light of their age, their condition of mental and physical disorder and degree of criminal tendencies of them, [2] necessary ability for adapting themselves to living in society and [3] other circumstances. Correctional education curriculums refer to focused contents and standard periods of correctional education provided for inmates.

(2) Correctional education

The centerpiece of treatment in juvenile training schools is correctional education. Inmates are provided with five fields of guidance: lifestyle guidance, vocational guidance, guidance in school courses, physical guidance and special activities guidance. A superintendent of a juvenile training school shall decide an education guideline, which indicates the goals, basic contents, methods, and period of correctional education, in accordance with the characteristics of the juveniles.