A Comprehensive Study on the Sanctions against Sex Offenders

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780042
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Criminal law
• Research Institution: Kokugakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Amari Kohji 國學院大學, 法学部, 准教授 (00456295)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 刑事法学 / 刑事政策学 / 刑法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research considers whether the sanctions against sex offender should be introduced or not in Japan.
There are 3 styles of the sanctions. First one is the "residence restrictions", which prohibit offenders from living in a certain places. However this cannot prevent reofendings. Second one is the "registration and notification". But these sanctions also do not have the effective effect in reducing re-offendings. And the third one is GPS Monitoring, which is very well-known. There are two of researches. And they show the completely opposite results, one of them says GPS has favorable effect and another one says that GPS is waste of the government's money because it lacks the effect. Therefore this research reached the conclusion that we need more detailed researchs about GPS monitoring.

Free Research Field

刑事法学