Hot Discussion on Lowering of Application Age of Japanese Juvenile Law since 2014

In this article I wrote about the application age of the Juvenile Law (which I will abbreviate as "the application age of JL") from the historical viewpoint.People supported the welfare and rehabilitation model under the Juvenile Law until 2000.However, the movement by crime victims surged up in the 1990s, after which people accepted their discourse that the Juvenile Law was a law to spoil juvenile delinquents.Then, the Juvenile Law was revised four times since 2000 toward the adoption of the crime control model by calling for the greater accountability of juvenile offenders while widening rights of crime victims related to procedures at the family court.However, even in the revised Juvenile Law of 2014 the lowering of the application age of JL was not realized.After 2014 hot discussion about the lowering of the application age of JL surged up.In this paper I would like to analyze the process of the discussion.