犯罪社会学と刑事政策学 (<特集>現代社会と犯罪社会学 : 批判・模索・展望)

抄録

Ten years have passed since the Sociological Criminology Society of Japan was established and during the years, several sessions have been held and the possibility of making a conjoint study both by sociologists and by criminalists has been discussed. So far, however, they cannot come to any complete agreement on the peculiar province of sociological criminology. From the view-point of new criminal policy, which is based on democracy, the author conciders the essential matters to be studied positively. In order to be sure that a decision of an anti-crime policy is made for sufficient reasons, the decision must be made after the following points are examined precisely : (1) what are the criminal phenomena. (2) how effective is the current anti-crime policy. (3) what are the views on evaluation or the standards for evaluation about criminal phenomena and anti-crime policy. The province of the positive research becomes more comprehensive, by analyzing these three points more fully. On the other hand, on the subjects of sociological criminology, sociologists say that it has to make a positive effort to intervene in social realities, since sociology is not a paper argument. Concidering all mentioned above, the subjects of positive research studies on criminal policy seem to cover almost all the subjects on "sociological criminology" at the same time. Because perspectives of new criminal policy based on democracy include many research subjects of sociological criminology as such, it is expected that both criminalists and sociologists take part in the same project, cutting off the useless efforts to search its proper boundary of each science.