少年矯正実務家にとっての実証的アプローチ(解釈学的社会学理論の犯罪社会学への応用)

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In this paper, the present author argues for the significance of empirical approaches while identifying some defects of interpretive approaches from a standpoint of practitioners working for juvenile corrections. The main claim of the author is that for practitioners empirical approaches to crime and delinquency are more useful than interpretive approaches simply because practitioners' intervention must rely on the knowledge concerning causal relaitonships between independent variables (i.e. intervention) and dependent variables (i.e. crime or delinquency). To show utility of empirical approaches, the author gives two examples. First, he criticizes the contention that psychological understanding of criminals and delinquents is useful to the control of their behavior and then presents replacement discourse which he claims to be based on evidence. The discourse is based on symbolic interactionist theory of delinquency but presented in a framework integrating social control and differential aassociation perspectives. Secondy, the author presents two preliminary anallyses of meaning construction done by practitioners' day-to-day workings. The first analysis examines how a juvenile worker perceives inmates in a juvenile training school, and the second one analyze the variety of stories which classification psychologists construct when making psychological reports of juvenile delinquents. In concluding the paper, the author argues against the present conditions in Japan where empirical evidence has not been utilized in the making of criminal justice policies and calls for more support for empirical approaches.

少年矯正実務家にとっての実証的アプローチ(解釈学的社会学理論の犯罪社会学への応用)

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