A study for effective reduction of the number of dangerous driving in view of varieties of criminal sanctions

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26285019
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Criminal law
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: IMAI Takeyoshi 法政大学, 法務研究科, 教授 (50203295)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 仲 真紀子 立命館大学, 総合心理学部, 教授 (00172255) ; 白取 祐司 神奈川大学, 法科大学院, 教授 (10171050) ; 木林 和彦 東京女子医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (20244113) ; 田中 利幸 法政大学, 法学部, 教授 (60114980) ; 松村 良之 明治大学, 研究・知財戦略機構, 研究推進員 (80091502) ; 城下 裕二 北海道大学, 法学研究科, 教授 (90226332) ; 尾形 隆彰 千葉大学, 文学部, 教授 (80125913)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 危険運転致傷罪 / 飲酒運転罪 / 犯罪原因 / 刑罰による犯罪抑止

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Dangerous driving is an objective constituent element of the offences such as drunken driving. Recently, the offence of causing death or injury by dangerous driving has been made to tackle against the dangerous driving more severely. As such, the application scope of the offence is wide and its criminal sanction is so harsh. However, even after its enactment, cases of dangerous driving that resulted in death or serious injury of the pedestrians were reported. It indicates that more effective sanctions to curve dangerous driving is needed.
With this idea in mind, this study tried to confirm the hidden causes to dangerous driving not only from the criminal law perspective but also from the related sciences such as psychology, sociology and medicine. After this survey, this study submitted the tentative idea of new effective criminal sanctions against dangerous driving.

Free Research Field

刑法、法と経済学、法哲学、法社会学