Abstract
Abstract While there has been a marked decrease in the use of imprisonment in Japan in the post-War era, there has been a startling rise in the female incarceration rate of late. This upsurge is due primarily to the increase in prison admissions of females convicted of stimulant-drug offenses. A careful longitudinal analysis of the distribution of other crimes for which women are sent to prison is presented, as is a discussion of sentence length. The changing role of women in the Japanese culture is also examined.
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