英文摘要 |
Since 1973, the Ministry of Justice has edited and published the book Crime Situation and Analyses annually, presenting various crime statistics and explanations. On July 1st, 2013, Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, went through the organizational restructure. The Research Center for Crime Prevention and Correction was joined to the Academy. Part of its work is to investigate, analyze, and study the important crime issues occurred in the country, serving as a think tank, and continues to publish the book of Crime Situation and Analyses. To improve the value for academic study and to gradually connect to the interna tional crime prevention research, this annual volume was contracted to the university professionals, bringing in the academic professionalism. Moreover, the publication of books and short-version theses in Chinese as well as English, and holding the conference all help this long-standing crime research volume better quality and present more influential power of foresight. Additional to adopting the government data, including the Ministry of Justice, National Police Agency, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Judicial Yuan, along with the cross-national comparative analysis, the important development of methodology in the current report was to hold coordinating meetings and focus group discussion. This 2015 edition has continued the primary statistics to present the overall crime trend, kept the international comparison in crime situations, responded the societal needs, presented the judicial innovations, added the charts and figures, enhanced the function of interpretation and analysis, improved result explanations and policy implications, and so forth. Additionally, the current report studied the public attentive issues of drinking-and-driving and longterm incarceration, as well as proposed the related policy suggestions. Moreover, the corresponding suggestions for policy and future research based on the overall crime situation in 2015 and various innovative focuses observed in the research were also provided, expecting to have the current study become the most authoritative report on crime trend in Taiwan. |