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 analysis. On July 1st, 2013, Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, went through the organizational restructuring and the Crime Prevention Research Center, serving as a national think tank, was joined to the Academy. Part of the Center’s work is to investigate, analyze, and study the important crime issues occurred in the country and to annually publish the book of Crime Situation and Analyses. To improve the value for academic study and to gradually keep abreast of the international crime prevention research, this annual volume was contracted to the university professionals, bringing in the academic professionalism. Moreover, by publishing books and short-version theses in Chinese as well as English and holding conferences it is hoped that this long-standing crime research volume may keep improving quality and exert more influence.In addition to adopting the government data, including the Ministry of Justice, National Police Agency, Ministry of Health and Welfare and 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 interviews. This 2016 edition has continued to present the primary statistics regarding the overall crime trend, added charts and figures, enhanced the function of interpretation and analysis, introduced judicial reforms, improved result explanations and policy implications, and so forth. Finally, the current report studied the issues of public concerns, such as cross-border telecommunications fraud and schedule 1 & schedule 2 drug abuse treatments, and proposed the related policy suggestions. Moreover, based on the overall crime situation in 2016 and various reform measures observed in the research, the corresponding suggestions for policy and future research were also provided, expecting to have the current study become the most authoritative report on crime trend in Taiwan. |