日本財団では、2022年4月に成人年齢が18歳に引き下げられることをうけ、18歳の若者が何を考え、何を思っているのか、継続して調べる「18歳意識調査」を2018年10月から行っている。36回目となる今回は、成人年齢引き下げに伴い政府がまとめた「少年法改正」について、17～19歳の1000人に調査した。
In the juvenile law amendment, 18 and 19 years old will continue to be subject to the juvenile law as "specified juveniles", while the crimes subject to criminal trials will be expanded.In the survey, in response to the question "Did you know the movement of the revision of the Juvenile Law?" I answered.
Crimes subject to criminal trials have been expanded from "guilts that killed victims by intentional criminal acts" such as conventional murder, to crimes such as robbery, forced sexual intercourse, and arson, where the lower limit of statutory penalties is imprisonment or imprisonment for one year or more. 1% answered "yes" about what to do. When a case by a "specific boy" was prosecuted, 58.2 answered "agree" about the inclusion of provisions that allow the reporting of information that can be used to estimate the real name and the person, which is uniformly prohibited by the current law. %was.
In addition, 18% of the respondents asked what they thought about the difference between the amendment to the Juvenile Law, which considers 19 and 18 years old as a "specific boy", and the position of the Civil Code, which regards people aged 36.0 and over as "adults". Nothing in particular. " "It is strange that the law is the same country but different" 32.0%, "18 and 19 years old should be regarded as a boy and expect rehabilitation rather than punishment" 14.8%, "Efforts to gain the understanding of the people are insufficient. It was followed by 8.4%.
When asked what they thought about the process of compiling the amendment, 36.2% answered that there was nothing in particular.However, there are also opinions that raise questions such as "the opinions of the young people involved, especially those aged 15 to 19 years old, should be reflected more" 24.1%, and "the seriousness of the theme also requires broader national debate" 20.8%. Remarkable.
