KANAZAWA, Yuichiro    Tokunin Kyoju (Professor by Special Appointment)    Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
Research Period	2008/04～2011/03
Research Topic	Evaluating interaction effect of personality and social environment of recidivism for juvenile delinquents leaving juvenile classifcation homes.
Research Type	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
KAKENHI Grant No.	20530637
Keyword	Hierarchical logit models, log-normal split population model
KAKENHI Category	Clinical psychology Social psychology Applied mathematics and statistics
Responsibility	Research Contributor
Representative Person	Yoshikazu YUMA Professor at Hyogo University of Teachers Education
Details	In this study, we examined whether the effect on deterrence against recidivism of personal attributes (attachment to parents) was affected by the attributes of the community where delinquent boys lived (complete unemployment rate and the difference from the previous year). We examined whether or not there were 6238 boys who first entered juvenile discrimination centers throughout Japan in 1991. When analyzed using the hierarchical population split survival analysis model, the main effects of attachment to parents, the unemployment rate, and the difference in the full unemployment rate from the previous year are all significant in the direction consistent with the theoretical prediction. In addition, the interaction of the two variables on parental attachment and the unemployment rate was also found to be significant.