December 02, 2018 Sunday
Bedtime Story
Overloaded Japanese Prosecutors
We shall not into much detail on the
origins of criminality for now or the theories pertaining to it.
Suffice to say that Japan criminal justice
system is besieged more by white-collar types of crime rather than blue-collar
types or drug-related homicides in contrast to the United States.
The other point stated earlier was that
Japanese criminal justice system is constrained with extremely limited set of
state employed lawyers.
This results in excessive work overload on
them.
So what does this result in?
Perhaps this might instigate more crime
once the criminals are aware that the “system is overworked”?
Or perhaps one would expect greater number
of acquittals due to lack of enough manpower to strengthen the case for the
prosecution?
Or worse, making the prosecution agencies
very vulnerable to corruption from the criminal side deliberately weakening the
case in their favor?
It is very true that such low number of state
advocates in Japan with respect to its population does lead to a significant overload
on the prosecuting agencies at all levels – police, state lawyers and judiciary.
Yet rather than falling into the pitfalls
that most average societies land up into the Japanese has come up with perhaps
the best possible solution if once can call it that.
Japan has come out with brilliant maneuver
which perhaps will only work in this civilized country where citizens are
strongly encouraged to aid in maintaining public law and order and participate
in crime prevention programs.
The approach of Japanese society towards
crime is something akin to targeting disease prevention rather than cure to an
unprecedented level among the population.
Besides enforcing crime prevention the
Japanese prosecutors pushed to the corner because of work load are extremely
selective in prosecution.
The study conducted by American scholars of
Indiana University and Harvard Law School came up with very interesting figures
worth going through.
In the cases of murder in the United States
the police arrested 19,000 people for 26,000 murders.
I hope you understand the reasons for
discrepancy; it is not uncommon for murder cases to remain unsolved or the perpetrator
or at least the accused remaining absconding and thus not been
apprehended.
Of those arrested for these murders in the
US 75% were taken for prosecution of whom the courts finally convicted 12,000.
In Japan for 1,300 murders arrest was made
of 1,800 people.
This figure may be flummoxing to most but
not to me as I shall explain it in the nights to come.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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