Time for Malaysia to learn from Japan
June 12th, 2008 by Yvonne
Education Minister of Japan wonders if faults in the education system had caused Tomohiro Kato’s mass stabbing.
Education Minister Kisaburo Tokai said on Tuesday that he planned to consult with experts about the state of children in Japan, which has long enjoyed a reputation for its low crime.
“It made me think about whether the background of this incident may have been linked to education,” Mr Tokai said. source
And here was what happened.
Last year, I asked Dr. Chin who was our Head of ADP Department then, if I could major in Criminology. UIU has a 3-credit Criminology subject and he thought of introducing it in Segi College. Don’t know where this tendency came from, but I like considering the motivation behind our actions. I think too much sometimes, but better too much, than to regret not thinking enough when the chance is over.
Criminals are humans. Crime is a deviation from the norm. It means they are different, but still one of us. There has been a lot of study on violent crimes that support the theory of stress and maladaptive behavior. Studies on criminal minds increased since U.S. waged it’s War on Terror. Returning soldiers found themselves unable to adjust back to civilian life. There have been cases of ex-soldiers committing crimes of assault and murder before killing themselves. I received psychology news related to the study of U.S. ex-soldiers almost daily through RSS.
Now Japan is doing the same. When will Malaysia follow?
Do you remember this boy who stabbed his ex-tuition teacher’s daughter to death at 12-years-old? His adolescence was spent serving time in jail. When the boy reached 18 years of age last year, the court heard his case again, but decided to detain him indefinitely. Well, I don’t have to bring in the science. Let’s just look at Japan, how their minister is handling children and youth matters. This country raped Asia in World War 2. Our textbooks painted them as barbaric and torturous. Yet how far they have gone since.
Picture from Times Online
Posted in Blogathon 2006, Friends, General Psychology, In My Humble Opinion |
June 26th, 2008 at 1:16 am
The stories of the U.S. soldiers have since been showed to use flawed statistics. When compared to the general population, they are statistically normal, and in some case actually better off than the average.
The thing about crime is that it is a symptom of Sin, and until Jesus returns and Creation is restored to what it was supposed to be, there will be sin and crime. We can try to minimize it though. That’s what frustrates me about our politicians, they are doing things which encourage sin, thus encouraging more crime.