Study on the Crimes Committed by Politicians

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26380101
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Criminal law
Research Institution	Kwansei Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	AYUKAWA Jun 関西学院大学, 法学部, 教授 (90148784)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords	政治家 / 犯罪
Outline of Final Research Achievements	I published the results of this research in the chapter 6 "Justice: Focused crimes committed by politicians” in my new book Crimes and crime policies considered from new viewpoint: International and comparative cultural approach published in March, 2017. In this long chapter, I examined the politician's crimes which violated human rights in Africa. I also examined crimes committed by Japanese politicians, considering the differences of election systems, the differences of necessary conditions which constitute violation of election laws, crimes and the differences of criminal justice institutions which control crimes committed by politicians. In these examinations, I discussed the crimes committed by politicians referring several records of political criminal cases. As result of this research, I also published an English paper titled “Claims-Making and Human Rights in Domestic and International Spheres” in Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol.11, No.2, 2015.