The study of support and treatment within society for the prevention of recidivism among persons with disabilities.

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K01275
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 05070:New fields of law-related
• Research Institution: Kagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Hirano Miki 香川大学, 法学部, 教授 (70432771)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 再犯防止 / 社会復帰 / 社会奉仕命令 / オランダ / 施設内処遇 / 更生保護 / 入口支援 / 医療観察法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The fact that the recidivism rate remains high despite various measures taken by the Ministry of Justice is due to the criminal justice system, which focuses on the responsibility for the act, rather than the disorder or addiction that led to the criminal act or the difficulties in life faced by the individual. To prevent reoffending, it is necessary to examine the needs of the person behind the offence, not only the responsibility for the offence, from multiple perspectives, mainly welfare, and to take the necessary steps through multi　disciplinary cooperation. The high rate of re-entry into prisons is also due to the fact that life within society is interrupted, albeit temporarily, and that institutional treatment is so far removed from life within society that it does not directly lead to individuals’ normal life　in sustainable and communal society. To introduce the new sanctioning system in 2025, correctional treatment should be changed in many ways to conductive to life.

Free Research Field

刑事法

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

犯罪認知件数が減少し続けてもなお、安全安心なまちづくりは、社会の根幹をなす大きな課題である。再犯者率が高止まりしており、さらに刑務所再入所率も依然として高いままである現状について、まず、犯罪行為に至る本人障害だけではなく生活上の課題を抱えており、社会復帰のためには本人の問題点を多機関で連携すること、その際には施設内処遇は社会復帰に向けての処遇として限界があり、施設収容しないという選択肢も必要であることを検討した。後者については、刑務所に収容しないオランダの刑罰制度（社会奉仕命令）の研究も行った。そして最終的には、社会一般がどのように再犯者を受容していくのかが大きな課題となることを明らかにした。