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Life Sciences
Research on life sciences published by scientists at Ryukoku University
March 29th, 2008
"Despite its post-war reputation as one of the most crime-free industrialized countries Japan has a rapidly increasing recorded crime rate and corresponding falling clearance rate in police statistics. In 1998, only 19 per cent of the Japanese public thought crime was getting worse, but by 2005 this had increased to 48 per cent," investigators in Kyoto, Japan report. "The first part of this article, therefore, examines statistical records to assess the public's perception of increasing crime. Recent evidence (Hamai and Ellis, 2006), summarised here, shows that in the late 1990s, press coverage of police scandals provoked key policing policy changes. These changes...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-29)
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