人口高齢化の中の保護観察 : マルチアキスな対象者 (課題研究 高齢化社会における犯罪と刑事政策)
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As Japanese society is now in the process of aging, problem of aged offenders (including probationers and parolees) becomes serious. Treatment of aged offenders in the community requires special attention for its effectiveness. This article provides description of present probation and parole supervision for the aged offenders, and discusses main characteristics cf aged probationers and parolees. Analysis of 17 paroled homicide cases of 50 years of age or more shows some findings as follows : a) Parolees accepted by their families upon release from the correctional institutions indicate that they made contributions to their families before the imprisonment so as to receive positive evaluation and confidence. b) Parolees refused by their families upon release from correctional institutions indicate that they did not work for a long time without reason and behaved badly to their families so as to receive negative evaluation. Aged probationers and parolees sometimes have physical and/or mental troubles or sickness. The information about parolees' physical and/or mental conditions is available from correctional institutions. However, information about the probationers' conditions is not available for the probation office at the time of admission. Since Japanese legal system does not have presentence investigation system for adult offenders, probation office should start the supervision of the probationers, especially aged probationers, without sufficient information for their needs and physical and/or mental conditions. Therefore, at the beginning of the supervision for aged probationers, detailed investigation of the physical and/or mental conditions as well as other social and economical situations of the probationers is necessary. In addition, treatment of the aged probationers and parolees should fully consider their well-being so that they are able to have positive images for their future social and psychological lives.
- 日本犯罪社会学会の論文