EFFECTIVENESS OF JAPANESE CORRECTIONAL TREATMENTS FOR JUVENILES

• Yuma Yoshikazu

  Professor of Psychology, Graduate School of Human and Social Studies, Saitama Institute of Technology

• Kanazawa Yuichiro

  Professor of Statistics, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba

• Kuniyoshi Masaya

  Chief Psychologist in the Classification Office within Kokura Juvenile Classification Home, the Correction Bureau within the Ministry of Justice in Japan

Abstract

In this article we study effectiveness of training school programs relative to probation on recidivism for Japanese juvenile delinquents with differing criminal experiences—early versus late involvement, and first-time as opposed to repeat. We measure effectiveness by the times elapsed from release to reincarceration in the Juvenile Classification Homes. We employ proportional hazards model to examine the relationship between the form of treatment and the times to reincarceration. The effect of treatment in training school is found to be complex. Institutionalization of the late-starting first-time offenders (N = 5,675) and of the early-starting repeat offenders (N = 158) is associated with significantly longer times to reincarceration. But for the late-starting repeat offenders (N = 946), we do not find any positive effect of training school.

Journal

• Behaviormetrika

  Behaviormetrika 33 (2), 149-177, 2006

  The Behaviormetric Society

Keywords

• Japanese juvenile delinquents
• recidivism
• training school
• probation
• proportional hazards model

Details

• CRID: 1390001205112996096
• NII Article ID: 110004863629
• NII Book ID: AA00095330
• DOI: 10.2333/bhmk.33.149
• ISSN: 13496964
• ISSN: 03857417
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2333/bhmk.33.149.pdf
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/article/10.2333/bhmk.33.149/fulltext.html
• Text Lang: en
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