Sex Crime Victims
VICTIM SUPPORT: Sea changes on sex crime
"Makiko Sasagawa, a social worker and clinical researcher who also conducts seminars at the National Police Academy on interacting with sex-crime victims.
"There's an obvious change," said Sasagawa, citing her courses at the academy as proof. "Every year, there are more questions from officers on how to communicate with victims, how not to hurt their feelings."
Sasagawa attributed the greater sensitivity to a strongly worded -- yet barely reported -- 1996 National Police Agency directive that law enforcement officers should spare no effort to safeguard the rights of victims of sexual crime.
The directive, titled "Higaisha Taisaku Yoko (Outline of Measures to Help Victims)," acknowledged allegations of "secondary victimization" by police and spelled out concrete ways to better help victims, "while trying to see things from their perspective." Experts say that, in retrospect, the document affected a catalytic change in the way police think about sexual crime."
The Japan Times, June 13, 2004
"Makiko Sasagawa, a social worker and clinical researcher who also conducts seminars at the National Police Academy on interacting with sex-crime victims.
"There's an obvious change," said Sasagawa, citing her courses at the academy as proof. "Every year, there are more questions from officers on how to communicate with victims, how not to hurt their feelings."
Sasagawa attributed the greater sensitivity to a strongly worded -- yet barely reported -- 1996 National Police Agency directive that law enforcement officers should spare no effort to safeguard the rights of victims of sexual crime.
The directive, titled "Higaisha Taisaku Yoko (Outline of Measures to Help Victims)," acknowledged allegations of "secondary victimization" by police and spelled out concrete ways to better help victims, "while trying to see things from their perspective." Experts say that, in retrospect, the document affected a catalytic change in the way police think about sexual crime."
The Japan Times, June 13, 2004
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