Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze (1) a view of juvenile delinquents among practicing lawyers (2) a relation between the view and thinking about juvenile justice among practicing lawyers (3) a relation between the view and their careers of defense on cases. The subjects of this research were practicing lawyers in Japan who experienced defense on cases of delinquency. We researched practicing lawyers from August to October in 1991 with a questionnaire and mail servey method. And we got samples of 1068 practicing lawyers. Findings are as follows. (1) Practicing lawyers tend to have a view that juvenile delinquents go from bad to worse, if adults do not help them. (2) Practicing lawyers having the view tend to approve thinking that Japanese Nation should take care of juvenile delinquents for any purposes, for example, educational purpose, retributional purpose, even if the purposes contradict each others. (3) There is no relation between to get the view (2) and the lawyers' careers of defence on cases.
