Speakers
Mao Kunori
Workshop Session
In this presentation, I will first introduce the role of the Center for Evidence-Based research, which I belong and then, our current research about the process of recovery from delinquency. The Center for Evidence-Based Research is an organization inside the Correction Bureau of the Ministry of Justice of Japan. As part of our research projects for this year, we conducted an exploratory research to examine the process of recovery from delinquency, factors that may promote or hinder this process, and how correctional education can facilitate this process. Even juvenile correctional institutions make a great rehabilitative effort to prevent reoffending, “having contact with the youth justice system in the past” may impose a stigma to the juvenile, which may hinder social inclusion after released from correctional institutions. Therefore, in this research, we focused on the coping strategies to overcome difficulties that those juveniles may face in the process of recovery from delinquency, including stigma, by analyzing retrospective data collected by persons who used to have contact with youth justice system. We will also discuss methodological issues and suggestions in conducting retrospective studies based on the lived experiences of persons who used to have contact with youth justice system.
