Change of Treatment in Japanese Juvenile Training Schools

• In Event: Juvenile Institutions: Issues and Concerns

Abstract

In Japan the treatment in juvenile training schools was carried out under the rehabilitation model after the World War II. Since the late 1990’s people have supported the tough policy against juvenile delinquents. After the scandal in Hiroshima Juvenile Training School the Ministry of Justice made a draft of two new laws on the juvenile training schools and the juvenile detention & classification homes. I will analyze the change of the treatment in juvenile training schools toward the tough policy.

Author

• Minoru Yokoyama, Kokugakuin University