R&D Focus Area:Protecting Children from Crime
PUBLIC NEEDS for this R&D area:
Area Director:
Tsuneo KATAYAMA
Professor, School of Science and Technology for Future Life,
Tokyo Denki University
Social problems to be solved:
- Lack of effectiveness in keeping children safe from criminal activities
- Efforts being made on a trial-by-error basis without consistency or inter-agency coordination/cooperation
Application of scientific knowledge and methods for greater efficiency is needed.
GOALS:
- To create an open network to facilitate information sharing and collaboration among relevant parties, including researchers who can provide scientific perspectives and those(*1) who face problems in their work to protect children from crime(*2)
- To develop scientific knowledge and methods that will form the foundation of crime prevention policies, there by ensuring that the importance of evidence-based crime prevention activities will be well-recognized in Japan and provide an opportunity to implement such activities
- To produce solid outcomes (i.e., policy proposals and/or empirical data and analysis) from the application of scientific knowledge and methods in community-oriented efforts to reduce the risk of children becoming victims of crime. The design of such case studies is characterized by consistency with and relevance to the actual conditions of particular communities.
- (*1) i.e. Family, teachers, businesses, NPOs, and government officers
- (*2) Goal [1] is to be achieved through activities of the Area as a whole
R&D Program: Protecting Children from Crime (FY2007-2012)
- To fund and support R&D projects (of 1-5yrs. in duration) that are designed to pursue Goal [2] and/or Goal [3]
- To fund and support project planning efforts for those with potential toreceive full-funding in the future by providing opportunities to develop feasible schedules, management structures and other details
- R&D Project
