WHITE PAPER ON CRIME 2023

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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

Section 2 Penal Code Offenses by Category

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 Forcible sexual intercourse: reported/cleared cases and clearance rate

Fig. 1-1-2-3Fig. 1-1-2-3 Indecency through compulsion: reported/cleared cases and clearance rate

Fig. 1-1-2-4Fig. 1-1-2-4 Penal Code offenses: reported/cleared cases and clearance rate (by type of offense)

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 by Category

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 Reception

Fig. 2-2-1-1Fig. 2-2-1-1 Persons received by public prosecutors: composition by type of offense

Section 2 Dispositions

Fig. 2-2-2-1Fig. 2-2-2-1 Persons disposed by public prosecutors: composition by type of disposition and number of persons prosecuted for public trial, etc.

Fig. 2-2-2-2Fig. 2-2-2-2 Persons prosecuted, not prosecuted, etc.

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

Chapter 3 Courts

Section 1 Finalized Judgment

Table 2-3-1-1Table 2-3-1-1 Persons whose cases have been finalized (by type of judgment)

Section 2 Courts of First Instance

Table 2-3-2-1Table 2-3-2-1 Persons disposed by courts of first instance (by type of offense and by type of judgment)

Table 2-3-2-2Table 2-3-2-2 Persons sentenced to imprisonment for a definite term by courts of first instance

Table 2-3-2-3Table 2-3-2-3 Saiban-in trials: persons received/disposed by courts of first instance (by type of offense)

Section 3 Appeals

Table 2-3-3-1Table 2-3-3-1 Persons disposed by courts of second instance (by type of offense and by type of judgment)

Chapter 4 Institutional Correction of Offenders aged 20 or older

Section 1 Inmates in Penal Institutions

Fig. 2-4-1-1Fig. 2-4-1-1 Inmate population of penal institutions and rate per population at the end of the year

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

Fig. 2-4-1-3Fig. 2-4-1-3 Newly sentenced inmates: composition by age group (male/female)

Fig. 2-4-1-4Fig. 2-4-1-4 Newly sentenced inmates: composition by type of offense (male/female)

Section 2 Treatment of Sentenced Inmates

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

Section 3 Administration of Penal Institutions

Table 2-4-3-1Table 2-4-3-1 Security incidents at penal institutions

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 sentenced to imprisonment for a determinate term and granted release on parole, by percentage of served term per that imposed by a sentence and by term 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 by age group

Fig. 2-5-2-3Fig. 2-5-2-3 Probationers/parolees newly placed under probation/parole supervision: composition by type of offense

Table 2-5-2-4Table 2-5-2-4 Number of probationers/parolees by treatment category

Fig. 2-5-2-5Fig. 2-5-2-5 Probationers/parolees in a specialized treatment program

Section 3 Volunteer Probation Officers and Halfway Houses

Fig. 2-5-3-1Fig. 2-5-3-1 VPOs: number, percentage of females and average age

Fig. 2-5-3-2Fig. 2-5-3-2 VPOs: composition by age group and occupation

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

PART 3 Trends in Juvenile Delinquency and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents

Chapter 1 Trends in Juvenile Delinquency

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: cleared juveniles and rate per population

Table 3-1-1-2Table 3-1-1-2 Penal Code offenses committed by juveniles: cleared juveniles and percentage of juveniles (by type of offense and male/female)

Section 2 Special Acts Offenses Committed by Juveniles

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

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 by type of offense (by age group)

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 percentage of females

Section 4 Juvenile Training Schools

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

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

Fig. 3-2-4-3Fig. 3-2-4-3 Juveniles newly committed to juvenile training schools: composition by type of delinquency (by age group, by male/female)

Section 5 Probation/Parole Supervision for Juveniles

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

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

Chapter 3 Criminal Procedure for Juveniles

PART 4 Specific Types of Offenses / Offenders

Chapter 1 Traffic Offenses

Section 1 Occurrence of Traffic Accidents

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 Violations of Stimulants Control Act: cleared persons

Fig. 4-2-1-2Fig. 4-2-1-2 Violations of Stimulants Control Act: cleared persons by age group

Fig. 4-2-1-3Fig. 4-2-1-3 Violations of Cannabis Control Act and Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act: cleared persons by type of offense

Table 4-2-1-4Table 4-2-1-4 New psychoactive substances: cleared persons by type of regulation

Section 2 Treatment of Drug Offenders

Fig. 4-2-2-1Fig. 4-2-2-1 Violations of Stimulants Control Act: newly sentenced inmates

Chapter 3 Organized Crime

Section 1 Trends in Organized Crime Groups

Fig. 4-3-1-1Fig. 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 Violations of Companies Act/Commercial Code, etc.: persons received by public prosecutors

Section 3 Intellectual Property-related Offenses

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

Chapter 5 Cybercrime

Fig. 4-5-1Fig. 4-5-1 Cybercrime: cleared cases

Table 4-5-2Table 4-5-2 Offenses involving computers or electromagnetic records, etc.: cleared cases

Table 4-5-3Table 4-5-3 Other cybercrime: cleared cases (by type of offense)

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

Section 1 Child Abuse

Fig. 4-6-1-1Fig. 4-6-1-1 Child abuse: cases/persons cleared by type of offense

Section 2 Spousal Violence

Fig. 4-6-2-1Fig. 4-6-2-1 Domestic violence: cleared cases by type of offense

Section 3 Stalking-related Crimes

Fig. 4-6-3-1Fig. 4-6-3-1 Stalking: cleared cases by type of offense

Chapter 7 Offenses committed by Women

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

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

Fig. 4-7-1-2Fig. 4-7-1-2 Penal Code offenses: composition by type of offense committed by cleared persons (male/female)

Section 2 Treatment

Fig. 4-7-2-1Fig. 4-7-2-1 Newly sentenced female inmates (by type of offense) and percentage of females

Chapter 8 Offenses committed by the Elderly

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

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

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

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

Fig. 4-8-1-4Fig. 4-8-1-4 Penal Code offenses: rate per population of cleared persons by age group (by type of offense)

Section 2 Treatment

Fig. 4-8-2-1Fig. 4-8-2-1 Newly sentenced inmates (by age group) and percentage of elderly

Chapter 9 Offenses committed by Foreign Nationals

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

Fig. 4-9-1-1Fig. 4-9-1-1 Penal Code offenses committed by foreign nationals: cases/persons cleared

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

Section 2 Treatment

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

Fig. 4-9-2-2Fig. 4-9-2-2 Newly sentenced and F-class categorized inmates (male/female)

Chapter 10 Offenses committed by Those with Mental Disorders

Section 1 Trends in Offenses

Table 4-10-1-1Table 4-10-1-1 Penal Code offenses committed by persons with mental disorders, etc.: cleared persons by type of offense

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 at district court hearings (by type of designated act)

Chapter 11 Offenses committed by Public Officials

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

PART 5 Repeat Offenders

Chapter 1 Cleared Offenders

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

Fig. 5-1-2Fig. 5-1-2 Penal Code offenses: composition of cleared persons aged 20 or older by with/without previous convictions (by type of offense)

Chapter 2 Prosecution

Table 5-2-1Table 5-2-1 The number and percentage of previously convicted persons among persons prosecuted (by type of offense)

Chapter 3 Correction

Section 1 Reimprisoned Inmates

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

Section 2 Reimprisonment of Released Sentenced Inmates

Fig. 5-3-2-1Fig. 5-3-2-1 Rate of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates by reason for previous release

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

Fig. 5-3-2-3Fig. 5-3-2-3 Rate of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates within five years after release by reason for the previous release (by type of offense)

Fig. 5-3-2-4Fig. 5-3-2-4 Rate of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates by reason for previous release

Fig. 5-3-2-5Fig. 5-3-2-5 Rate of reimprisonment of released sentenced inmates within two years after release, by male/female, age group, and type of offense

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 by with/without previous convictions and percentage of previously convicted persons

Section 2 Redisposition or Revocation during Probation/Parole Supervision

Fig. 5-4-2-1Fig. 5-4-2-1 Redisposition/revocation rate 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 involving human victims: reported cases 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 by relationship between victims and suspects in cleared cases (by type of offense)

Chapter 2 Victims in the Criminal Justice Process

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

Table 6-2-2Table 6-2-2 Applied measures for victims/witnesses

PART 7 Special Feature: Juvenile Delinquents and their Growing Environments

Chapter 1 Recent Trends in Juvenile Delinquency

Fig. 7-1-1Fig. 7-1-1 Juveniles conclusively disposed by family courts for non-traffic protection cases

Chapter 2 Special Survey on Juvenile Delinquents and their Growing Environments

Section 1 Overview of Survey

Table 7-2-1-1Table 7-2-1-1 Characteristics of the survey subjects

Section 2 Comparison between juvenile inmates in juvenile training schools and juvenile probationers

Fig. 7-2-2-1Fig. 7-2-2-1 Survey for juveniles: Frequency of family dinners

Fig. 7-2-2-2Fig. 7-2-2-2 Survey for juveniles: How daily life is spent

Fig. 7-2-2-3Fig. 7-2-2-3 Survey for juveniles: Experience of worrying about whether I should quit school or not

Section 3 Comparison by Difference in Growing Environment

Fig. 7-2-3-1Fig. 7-2-3-1 Survey for juveniles: History of Job changes (by household situation)

Fig. 7-2-3-2Fig. 7-2-3-2 Survey for juveniles: Ways of studying as a student during second grade of junior high school (by economic situation)

Fig. 7-2-3-3Fig. 7-2-3-3 Survey for juveniles: Presence or absence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (by male/female)

Section 4 Status of Guardians

Fig. 7-2-4-1Fig. 7-2-4-1 Survey for guardians: Experience since having a child

Fig. 7-2-4-2Fig. 7-2-4-2 Survey for guardians: Support they would appreciate in their own life

【Members of the “Study Group Concerning Translation of White Paper on Crime in Japan”】