Abstract
I started this book by asking two main questions:
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Why is it that Japan, a modem and urbanized society, appears to a large extent to have succeeded in combating (predatory) crimes during the period 1950–85?
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Is there anything to be learned from the Japanese case concerning the Western crime paradox (increasing affluence and increasing crime despite increasing crime policy)?
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Leonardsen, D. (2004). Look to Japan?. In: Japan as a Low-Crime Nation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511538_5
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