Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.giapponese
Titolo: Qualche statistica sulla criminalita

        N. of murder case   Murder rate
1971          1941            1.8
1972          2060            1.9
...
1976          2111            1.9
...
1978          1862            1.6
...
1988          1441            1.2
...
1991          1215            1.0
...
1993          1233            1.0
1994          1279            1.0
1995          1281            1.0
1996          1218            1.0
1997          1282            1.0
1998          1388            1.1
1999          1265            1.0
2000          1391            1.1
 (data from, 
http://www.npa.go.jp/toukei/keiji1/satujin.htm
 Murder rate, per 100,000)
Handguns Murdered (1996)
2 in New Zealand
13 in Australia
15 in Japan
30 in Great Britain
106 in Canada
211 in Germany
9,390 in the United States
Handguns Murdered (1979)
8 in Great Britain
21 in Sweden
34 in Switzerland
42 in West Germany
48 in Japan
52 in Canada
58 in Israel
10,728 in the United States
Murder and manslaughter cases / rates (per 100,000) / % of them arrested
U.S. (1991)  24,703 / 9.8 / 67.2
Japan(1991)   1,252 / 1.0 / 95.7
U.K. (1991)   1,280 / 2.5 / 91.9
From: Crime in the United States (U.S.)
      Statistics of the Police Department (Japan)
      Criminal Statistics England and Wales (U.K.)
The number of robberies with assault per 100,000 population
(1984)
        Japan      1.82
        USA      205.38
        UK        50.02
        W.Germany 45.77
The number of persons murdered per 100,000 population (1984)
        Japan      1.47
        USA        7.92
        UK         3.24
        W.Germany  4.51
All figures from "The Enigma of Japanese Power" by Karel van Wolferen
(Page 194)
White paper: Crimes hit record-high in '99
Police authorities last year acknowledged 2.9 million Penal
Code violations, the highest number since the end of World War
II and a 7.9 percent increase over 1999, according to a white
paper on crime approved at a Cabinet meeting Friday.
The white paper, submitted by Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka
at the meeting, also revealed that the incidence of criminal
cases per 100,000 people hit a postwar record high of 2,292.
Meanwhile, the ratio of criminal arrests, excluding fatal
traffic accidents, fell to a record-low 33.8 percent in the
postwar era, down 4.2 percentage points from the previous
year.
According to one senior Justice Ministry official, the state
of the country's public order has "reached the danger zone."
The number of criminal cases has increased steadily since
1975.
Last year, 1.9 million theft cases accounted for the highest
percentage, at 65.8 percent, of overall criminal cases. This
was followed by fatal traffic accidents at 25.4 percent, while
embezzlement accounted for 2.4 percent of cases and those
involving the damage or destruction of property stood at 1.8
percent.
Theft cases also had the highest rate of increase from the
previous year, rising by 6.8 percent, or 121,344 cases. The
number of robbery cases increased by 23.7 percent to 4,237.
The number of sexual assault cases also increased by 25.8
percent to 5,346.
While the overall arrest ratio fell, this was mainly due to
the drop in theft case arrests, which fell by 9,182, or 5.1
percent.
Although many have bemoaned the increased viciousness of
juvenile crimes, the number of juvenile offenders arrested
stood at 201,826, down 8.8 percent. This was the first
decrease in four years. However, most of the decrease came in
the categories of "relatively light" crimes, such as theft.
The number of juveniles arrested for murder fell by only six
to 111. Robbery arrests increased by 78 to 1,644. A Justice
Ministry official said that the rate of juvenile crime had not
yet peaked.
In the category of economic crimes, five companies were fined
as much as 60 million yen under the revised Antimonopoly Law
and one company was fined 100 million yen under the revised
Securities and Exchange Law. Recently, laws have been revised
to increase the amounts of fines levied against corporations.
6.3% fewer juvenile offenders
The number of cases involving juveniles sent to prosecutors in 1999
was 279,774, a decline of 6.3 percent from the previous year's
figure, the Justice Ministry said in an annual report released
Thursday.
The 1998 White Paper on Crime found that reported offences topped
2.5 million for the first time last year, boosted by a 57 per cent
increase in violent youth crime. Although the total remains low for
a population of 126 million (in Britain, you are twice as likely to
be murdered and five times as likely to be robbed), the upward trend
appears to confirm fears raised by recent high-profile crimes.
International crime rates
source: U.S. Dept. of Justice,  Bureau of Justice Statistics,
International crime rates / by Carol B. Kalish. [1988]
(Govt Doc No.:  J 29.13:C 86/6 GPO Item No.:  968-H-16)
from    Table 1.  Summary data on international crime rates
Number of crimes per 100,000 population
Crime and data series
                          Canada, Australia,
United States           Europe    and New Zealand
Homicide (excluding attempts)
WHO 1980        10.5            1.4             1.5
UN 1980         10.1            1.3             ...
Rape
UN 1980         36.0            5.0             ...
Interpol 1980   36.0            4.2             10.5
Robbery
UN 1980         240.9           25.4            ...
Interpol 1980   244.0           38.4            56.4
Interpol 1984   205.4           49.1            63.8
from Table 4
Japan   actual homicide:  0.8
rape:             1.6
robbery:          1.8
according to: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
and more recent UN and Interpol data.
in the last 20 years US crime rates for violent crimes
(homicide, rape, robbery) have been the highest among
industrial nations.
Principali reati in rapporto alla popolazione
        Omicidi          Stupri          Rapine
        1980-90         1980-90         1980-90
Francia                 4,1-4,5         3,5-8,1         6,6-5,1
Germania                1,4-3,9    11,2-8,2             4,0-5,6
Giappone                0,8-1,0         0,2-1,3         2,0-1,0
Gran Bretagna   2,3-2,7         2,5-6,7         4,1-5,6
Italia                  1,4-2,7         1,1-3,9         1,9-6,4
Stati Uniti              10-9,4         3,6-4,1         2,4-2,6
"...The annual per capita incidence of murder, rape, arson and assault
in Japan increased by 11 percent in 1999, and has rocketed by 50
percent in the last decade, according to National Police Agency
statistics.
More ominously, the increase came even though Japan's population on
average has passed the youthful crime-prone years, a maturation that
should be producing a drop in crime. Instead, say analysts, the advent
of two working parents, fewer and "spoiled" children, increased
mobility, materialism and the loss of family and community authority
have led to higher lawlessness..."
"...Violent crime in Japan is at a 23-year high--and rising. The
upward march of violence is the bitter fruit of Japan's failure to fix
its decade-long economic stagnation, as well as the unraveling of
strong social controls that made Japan a safe and orderly place,
according to police, criminologists and victims.
...the murder rate here is now higher than in England and Wales, and
only slightly lower than most other European countries... "
You know, in 1970 the population of Japan is 20% smaller than now,
but still number of murder was bigger than now.

Trovare i dati sull'Italia è più difficile, porca miseria...
Omicidi (1998)
876 (di cui di mafia 208)
Ricordo che la popolazione italiana (meno di 58 milioni) è meno della metà
di quella giapponese (oltre 126 milioni).
Nel 1999 sono stati denunciati all'autorità giudiziaria dalle forze
dell'ordine 2.373.966 delitti, il 2,1% in meno rispetto all'anno precedente.
Guardando ai singoli reati, risultano in crescita i delitti relativi a
lesioni dolose, truffe, produzione e commercio di sostanze stupefacenti e
furti mentre diminuiscono i reati legati al contrabbando e allo sfruttamento
e favoreggiamento della prostituzione. Complessivamente sono stati commessi
nell'ultimo anno 4.115,8 delitti per 100.000 abitanti.
I reati in Giappone dovrebbero essere stati 2.131.164 nel 2000 (1.679,4 ogni
100.000 abitanti). Meno, nonostante il doppio della popolazione.
Massimiliano Crippa
http://www.nipponico.net

 100.000 abitanti). Meno, nonostante il doppio della popolazione.
Guarda che se guardi le cifre ogni 100.000 abitanti non influisce la
popolazione del paese preso in considerazione!
                            Alessandro

 popolazione del paese preso in considerazione!
Lo so, l'ossservazione era riferita al numero totale...
Massimiliano Crippa
http://www.nipponico.net