Introduction; Juvenile Delinquency in Japan -- Reconsidering the "Crisis"; The "Japanese Triangle" for Preventing Adolescent Delinquency -- Strengths and Weaknesses of the Family-School Adolescent Relationship from a Comparative Perspective; Youth in Crisis: Public Perceptions and Discourse on Deviance and Juvenile Problem Behavior in Japan; Changes in Values and Life Orientation among Japanese Youth; Changes in School Environment and Deviancy -- A Survey Analysis and an Intervention Program for Schools; Repression of Deviancy as a Reason for New Deviancy
Summary
How to explain juvenile delinquent behaviour in the Japan of the nineties? Are its reasons really fundamentally different from those in other societies? "Juvenile Delinquency in Japan", written by leading Japanese and German scholars, looks comprehensively into the phenomenon
