The present study examined which factors affect the national crime trends in postwar Japan from an integrated theoretical perspective, including a critical economic theory and theories of deterrence and social control. The primary focus of analysis was on structural variables involving socio-economic conditions, certainty of punishment, social bonding, and age structure. Dependent variables of interest were the rate of each type of the following five major Penal Code offenses: larceny, bodily injury, rape, robbery, and homicide. A time-series regression analysis was performed on the basis of the aggregate official data over a 35 year time period from 1954 to 1988. The major findings are that economic affluence combined with economic equality and high efficiency of police and court activities appear to be important determinants of crime trends in postwar Japan; age structure and social bonding variables appeared the least likely to be significant. Despite certain data and methodological limitations, this study suggests the postwar Japanese crime patterns can be explained by critical economic theory and deterrence theory better than social control theory and the age structure perspective. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0953. / Major Professor: Gordon P. Waldo. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76602 |
| Contributors | Park, Won-Kyu., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 435 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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