For the objective of fusing and systematizing various forms of knowledge regarding crime and criminal justice, research is being developed in the following three fields:
We aim to implement the results obtained by research into society. We are developing projects in the following three themes:
Through academic exchanges with other researchers, practitioners, universities and foreign research institutions, we will not only raise Japanese criminology to international standards, but also promote the accumulated knowledge of corrections and rehabilitation regarding the “safest country in the world” and aim to disseminate these experiences to the world. This will be achieved through several means: