Comparison of major crime rates among advanced industrial countries; International comparison of public safety; International comparison of the proportion of violent and property offenses in total crime.FujimotoTetsuyaParkWon-KyuSocial JusticeFujimoto, Tetsuya / Won-Kyu Park 1994. "Is Japan exceptional?
Murder rates in Japan, Ireland, and Iceland are among the lowest in the world (around 0.5 cases per 100,000 people per year); the rate in the United States is among the highest of developed countries (around 5.5 in 2004, with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000). In...
That placed Japan 6th overall, with only 20% of that reported in the leading nation, the US. However, just 15.2% of Japanese people claiming to be victims of crime, placing the country 20th in the world, with 30% of Australian making a similar claim. Perhaps surprising to many is the ...
While the international literature is rich in comparisons of crime trends among countries, relatively few studies are devoted to exploring rural-urban differences in crime across countries. During the second half of the twentieth century, the Western world experienced increasing rates of crime, notably ...
Some regions have much lower levels of crime for any given level of trust, like in much of East Asia. Others have higher rates of crime for any given level of trust, like some countries in South and Central America, as well as the US and some Eastern European countries....
economically disadvantaged areas, as demonstrated in eight major US cities. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 €/ 30 days cancel any time Learn more...
Today, the peak age-crime involvement (the age group with the highest age-spe- cific arrest rate) is younger than 25 for all crimes reported in the FBI's UCR pro- gram except gambling, and rates begin to decline in the late teenage years for more than half of the UCR crimes. Even ...
Other areas with higher crime rates Attractions in these areas Western Addition:the main attraction in this area is Japantown, several city blocks of Japanese restaurants and shops, most of which are in the three enclosed malls. Even though this area isn't the greatest, Japantown itself is ge...
In particular, we recoded age of victim into four categories (0–4, roughly the period before children form memories; 5–11, age at elementary school; 12–16, puberty; 17–18, late adolescence). This allowed us to also examine a possible non-linear effect of age. Furthermore, the use ...
To this day, Japan is one of Vietnam’s most significant ODA and trade partner. As [21] states: “PMU 18 precipitated the first public discussion in Vietnam, certainly as far as I am aware, of the fact that official positions are sometimes bought” (note 42) The case got much uglier...