id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_gjvqovgtdbgyvbtehrkl5thdfe Masahiro Suzuki Future of Youth Justice in Japan 2019 30 .pdf application/pdf 8276 693 58 Drawing on existing empirical research on youth offending and juvenile justice, the purpose Youth justice, Japan, age of criminal majority, juvenile law, youth offending reform to lower the age of criminal majority from 20 years to 18 years, Japanese youth justice Japanese government proposes to lower the age of criminal majority from 20 years to 18 reforms of youth justice in Japan (Fenwick, 2013; Ryan, 2005), lowering the age of criminal To discuss the proposal of lowering the age of criminal majority in Japan, the Japanese Juvenile Law, serious youth crimes are already transferred to the adult criminal justice system on youth offending, not that of lowering the age of criminal majority. If the age of criminal majority were lowered, what would the future of youth justice in between young and adult offenders, lowering the age of criminal majority does not align with lowering the age of criminal majority (Japanese Ministry of Justice, 2016). ./cache/work_gjvqovgtdbgyvbtehrkl5thdfe.pdf ./txt/work_gjvqovgtdbgyvbtehrkl5thdfe.txt