There have been limited reports on crime prevention policies by local governments in
Japan, which is one of the safest countries in the world. This article reviews crime prevention …

Background Although it is globally known that Japan has high prevalence of active school
travel among children, there are few international studies on Japanese children's school …

Despite a steady decline in crime, CCTV usage in public areas has increased rapidly,
spreading to residential areas and even non-metropolitan regions in Japan. However, few …

One of the problems that urban communities face is migrating from small towns to big cities.
Low quality of life and lack of attachment are some of the reasons that cause such a …

In the past 13 years, Japan has been experiencing a boom in volunteering activities aimed
at crime prevention; as close to 3,000,000 Japanese citizens have involved themselves in …

Цель: в условиях начала третьего десятилетия XXI столетия общий уровень
преступности в Японии продолжает быть самым низким в сравнении с рядом …

A growing number of studies have argued that public participation in criminal justice has
become increasingly important in recent years; however, empirical data on the prevalence …

This book examines the little or not previously researched roles and contributions of non-
legal professionals in Japanese criminal justice against the background of recent social and …

Despite high public safety levels, crime prevention (bōhan) is a common concern in
Japanese society. In the early-2000s, the Japanese government set out to “create a crime …

A significant development in criminology over the past decades has been the growing
recognition of the prevalent Western-centric bias (Carrington, 2017; Liu, 2007a; Moosavi …