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The crime rate in Japan is so low because of various reasons such as low jobless people, similar identity, smaller profit gaps, and a powerful commitment to relative life. It is very rare for people in Japan to get shot because they have a very strong gun-control law. The women of Japan can walk anywhere without worrying about being attacked at any time of the day or even night. When you’re attending prison you are not allowed to see your family or communicate with them but their time in prison is a very short period of time. People that violate social norms are punished and those who conform are usually rewarded. Conformity is highly valued in the Japan culture, unlike the culture of the United States. You will be ridiculed or ostracized if you fail to conform in Japan this is another why their crime rates are low. Japan goal is to make you feel remorse whenever you commit a crime so that you won’t try whatever you tried the first time again. The pressure to conform and socialization are two of the main reasons that Japan has a very low crime rate. Powerful motivators for people to accommodate in Japan are usually confident sanctions. The people of Japan don’t really care what people think about them, according to Hirschi’s theory that is the main reason people do the motiveless things that they do today.

There are lower levels of juvenile delinquency because the police are trying to lower the crime rate in Japan. A good action is juvenile crime and they’re trying to balance Japan’s level as it being the safest country on earth. The strict gun-control law is also helpful for the juveniles because if they don’t have guns then that’s just one less problem for people of their communities. The duty of the young generation is to lead in Japan. They are challenging them to maintain Japan’s future. They are more strict on bullying because this incident has caused young people to commit suicide. The law rather rehabilitate young people instead of punishing them, with the teenagers families treating them as rebellious rather than them treating them as evil young people. They had to revise the juvenile law because they feared for people lives because of the tragic things that juveniles were doing. They were not only doing tragic things but the murders they were committing were pointless and they were just killing random people. Now that they changed it they send teenage murderers to criminal courts and they can face criminal prosecutions. Lawyers and judges believe that the young criminals should have a chance to become decent people.

I think labeling theory really explains the low rates of crime because it is an approach on behavior within society such as criminal and deviant. The theory of labeling starts with the belief that no act is essentially criminal. When you are labeled it is hard

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