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Japanese probation officers to have greater responsibility for sex offenders
By William Sparrow and agencies
January 18, 2005
Tokyo — The Justice Ministry has decided to boost the roles of state-employed
probation officers in the supervision of sex offenders released from prison on
parole to help prevent them from committing sex crimes again, government
sources said Monday.
The ministry will require the officers to have a detailed understanding of the
lives of the released sex offenders by such means as increasing the frequency
of their meetings with them rather than maintaining the conventional
supervision mainly offered by volunteer probation workers, they said.
The recent arrest of Kaoru Kobayashi who was implicated in the kidnapping and
murder of a 7 year old Nara girl reported by Asian Sex Gazette on January 1,
spurred debate over whether communities should be informed when anybody witha
history of sex crimes is living among them.
The debate led Prime Minister Hunichiro Koizumi to support the National Police
Agency (NPA) in tracking convicted sex offenders. "It is going to far to say
that the general public should be informed of the address of former sexual
offenders, but I think the police should know such information," Koizumi said.
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