What factors might contribute to the very low crime rates in Japan?

Select one discussion question from each of the denoted chapters below and post your response addressing the two questions in one posting response (be sure to identify the questions you selected in your response).

Chapter 1- Overview of Comparative Criminal Justice– Select One Discussion Question Below:

1. How do international and transnational crime differ?
2. Why should we study comparative criminal justice?
3. Using newspapers, magazines, or the Internet, find one example of how a country has borrowed an idea or way of doing criminal justice.
4. What are some of the underlying values that are present in the U.S. criminal justice system?
5. What are the advantages of using a historical-political approach to the study of comparative justice systems?

Chapter 2- Measuring and Comparing Crime in and Across Nations-Select One Discussion Question Below:

1. Which international crime data do you believe provide the most helpful information? Explain.
2. To what extent can we rely on crime data from other nations? How can we evaluate such data?
3. What factors might contribute to the very low crime rates in Japan? To the relatively higher rates in the United States?
4. Study the tables in the chapter that provide crime data for selected countries and find some with high or low crime rates. Why might there be such a disparity between certain countries?