2024 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 60-64
The aim of this paper is to discuss issues and developments in “watching over children during other activities.” This paper summarizes trends in the watching initiatives, including compilation of case studies by central ministries. Having done so, it classifies these initiatives by differences in project leadership and discusses issues faced in these initiatives. Classification revealed three types of the watching project: (1) projects undertaken by community resident organizations; (2) projects undertaken by commercial operators; and (3) coordinated projects undertaken by community resident organizations and commercial operators cooperatively. Type (3) projects were found to have better potential than Types (1) and (2) with regards to scope for expansion of operations and improvements in sustainability. At the same time, since information sharing among diverse project members and organizations is the key for Type (3) projects, the findings of this paper suggest the importance of information sharing on dangerous locations and suspicious individuals, as well as crime prevention activities between community resident organizations and commercial operators, and also between government and related personnel involved in such projects.
