The number of juvenile crimes is much lower than that of adult crimes.For example, in 2018, 182,605 adults were arrested for criminal offenses, while 30,458 juveniles were arrested for criminal offenses in the same year. It is 2,108.And the number of juveniles admitted to juvenile training schools is even smaller, at just XNUMX in the same year (see the XNUMX White Paper on Crime).
Looking at the numbers like this, juvenile training schools may seem like a very dangerous place where only the best juvenile delinquents are housed and where only uncontrollable delinquents live.
However, in reality, the boy has intellectual limitations and finds it difficult to express his feelings in words, so he tries to reach out without thinking. However, there are maladjusted and weak children, such as a boy who started committing crimes in order to make a living, a boy who lacks self-confidence and believes that he can only be recognized by acting like a bad boy and being strong, and repeatedly delinquent. There are a lot of boys who have ugliness.
A juvenile training school is a facility that accommodates such juveniles for a certain period of time and provides education and support according to their problems and characteristics.However, even though they are juvenile delinquents, they face a wide variety of problems.Therefore, various types of education and support are prepared accordingly.
For example, juveniles admitted to a juvenile training school while in junior high school must receive compulsory education.
Also, in the case of foreign boys, a special curriculum is required because it may be difficult to educate them in Japanese or they may not be familiar with Japanese culture.
In the same way, differences in intellectual standards must be taken into account, and sick boys must be treated with treatment.
In addition to these, considering the types of delinquency committed, family environment, life after discharge, etc., the problem becomes extremely complex, and the types of treatment that should be prepared increase.
For example, I don't think it is a high priority to make a juvenile who is a repeat drug delinquent understand the problem of sexual delinquency and make him think about the feelings of the victim.
Also, some boys want to work and become independent immediately after being released from the hospital, while others want to go on to high school or college.In order to support these juveniles' hopes, it is necessary to make arrangements so that they can acquire qualifications that are useful for employment in the juvenile training school, and to take the high school graduation level certification examination while they are in the juvenile training school. .In addition, some boys may need to make arrangements to receive welfare support after being discharged from the hospital.
There are several types of juvenile training schools, and the juvenile training schools that accommodate juveniles are roughly divided according to their problems and characteristics.However, even if juveniles are admitted to the same juvenile training school, not all juveniles receive exactly the same curriculum from admission to discharge.
At juvenile training schools, various types of education and support such as those mentioned above are carried out simultaneously, and individual treatment is provided while living in a group.
By the way, did your image of juvenile training school and the actual juvenile training school look the same?Or were they very different?Also, I hope this column has piqued your interest in juvenile training schools and juvenile delinquents.
I hope that there will be at least one more person in society who will support the boys who have been released from the juvenile training school.
