明治期における少年犯罪と官庁統計 : 統計的「実態」とその解釈をめぐって

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In this paper I attempt statistical analysis of juvenile criminals in the Meiji era. The arguments about juvenile crimes or delinquency in this period have referred mainly to discourses, institutions, or qualitative materials. By using quantitative materials, I point out the problems of these biased arguments. First, I examine the transition of number of juvenile criminal defendants in the Meiji era. We can find that the transition of total number of them was much influenced on by the number of defendants for "minor crimes." Moreover, the transition in laws and regulations of police control, and transition in formality of statistics were reflected on the number of minor crimes. We can say that discourses of this periocl about juvenile crimes referred to the statistical data which was much influenced on these "external variables." Second, I examine the statistics of the attributes of juvenile prisoners in 1900s (property of their family, education, growing condition, crimes they had committed, etc.) These statistical materials tell us that some of discourses in this period about attributes of juvenile prisoners were exaggerated, or inaccurate.
2002-02-25