Add to ORKGJapanese youth justice has experienced several reforms to date. Currently, a radical revision is under consideration: to lower the age of criminal majority from 20 to 18 years. Japanese scholars and practitioners have since been engaged in debates over this proposal. Drawing on existing empirical research on youth offending and juvenile justice, the purpose of this article is to advance a critical analysis on (in)appropriateness of lowering the age of criminal majority. By focusing on its potential consequences, we also discuss what the future of youth justice in Japan would look like. We conclude with offering research implications
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The long-standing debate over perceptions of children has been an aporia for centuries in Japan. Tho...
As juries in the U.S. and other parts of the world have increasingly come under attack, many countri...
Japanese youth justice has experienced several reforms to date. Currently, a radical revision is und...
On a cross-national continuum of juvenile justice, with a welfare model at one end and a criminal ju...
The Juvenile Law in Japan turned fifty years old on January 1, 1999. Japan enjoys one of the lowest ...
Among industrialized nations, Japan has the lowest crime rate and is considered to have one of the b...
The origin of recent controversies over the stability and change in an individual\u27s propensity to...
The main purpose of the current study is to evaluate the deterrent effects of the two juvenile law r...
The age of majority determines when a young person is considered adult in the eyes of the law, and i...
In this chapter we are concerned with the operation of the criminal justice system as it applies to ...
This Article seeks to advance discussions about the potential implications for justice policy of rec...
This paper critically analyses the current youth justice system and whether the upper age of the sys...
The “Report of the study group on the state of criminal law regarding young persons” was released in...
This paper tests the hypothesis that decreasing the age of criminal majority will reduce violence. M...
Childhood presents various images associated with words such as ephemerality, vulnerability, innocen...
The long-standing debate over perceptions of children has been an aporia for centuries in Japan. Tho...
As juries in the U.S. and other parts of the world have increasingly come under attack, many countri...
Japanese youth justice has experienced several reforms to date. Currently, a radical revision is und...
On a cross-national continuum of juvenile justice, with a welfare model at one end and a criminal ju...
The Juvenile Law in Japan turned fifty years old on January 1, 1999. Japan enjoys one of the lowest ...
Among industrialized nations, Japan has the lowest crime rate and is considered to have one of the b...
The origin of recent controversies over the stability and change in an individual\u27s propensity to...
The main purpose of the current study is to evaluate the deterrent effects of the two juvenile law r...
The age of majority determines when a young person is considered adult in the eyes of the law, and i...
In this chapter we are concerned with the operation of the criminal justice system as it applies to ...
This Article seeks to advance discussions about the potential implications for justice policy of rec...
This paper critically analyses the current youth justice system and whether the upper age of the sys...
The “Report of the study group on the state of criminal law regarding young persons” was released in...
This paper tests the hypothesis that decreasing the age of criminal majority will reduce violence. M...
Childhood presents various images associated with words such as ephemerality, vulnerability, innocen...
The long-standing debate over perceptions of children has been an aporia for centuries in Japan. Tho...
As juries in the U.S. and other parts of the world have increasingly come under attack, many countri...