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Is Japan still a low-crime nation? Is Japan still an inclusive society characterized by nurturant acceptance? What happens to a Confucian culture like Japan during economic depression? Based on available statistics, public documents, research and media reports, this book aims at answering these questions. In this book, Dag Leonardsen maintains that even though crime has been increasing in Japan during the last ten to fifteen years, a more worrying development concerns suicide and social withdrawal (hikikomori). Japanese society seems to be reacting to increasing social problems partly by 'blaming the victim' (criminal justice policy) and partly by 'ignoring the victim' (regarding suicide and social withdrawal). Even though Japan still could be described as a low-crime society, social problems remain.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Crime in Japan
• Subtitle: Paradise Lost?
• Author: Dag Leonardsen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780230235540
• ISBN: 0230235549
• ID: 04552745
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 412 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 148 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. April 2010

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