Citation

Adachi K. Jpn. J. Sociol. Criminol. 2006; (31): 7-21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology)

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Abstract

'Regulations for Safe and Secure Community' have been established in many prefectures and municipalities, and government promotes the establishment of this type of regulations in other prefectures and municipalities. 'Regulations for Safe and Secure Community' can be categorized into following three types by their contents: (1) the regulations which provide the efforts toward safe and secure community; (2) the regulations which provide the positive participation of administrative organ and police in designing schools, roads, parks, apartment houses and so on from the viewpoint of crime prevention, and punishment for the offense at the previous stage of violence or burglary crime; (3) the regulations which provide efforts toward safe and clean community. These regulations are established in order to promote positive participation of residents and recover the crime preventive function of community. The regulations would not work, if they were not based on the real needs of residents, and not established and executed through the democratic process where they participate voluntarily. Furthermore, residents' voluntary activity for crime prevention based on 'Regulations for Safe and Secure Community' includes a risk that those who watch others are in fact watching themselves, too from the viewpoint of power. The risk is omnipresent and very difficult to notice, and thus particular to 'Risk-Society'.