The second similarity of Japan and North Dakota is honor. In Japan if you commit a crime, people not only look down upon you, they look down upon your family for raising you badly. This prevents crime because people do not want to shame their families and themselves. In North Dakota honor is important because everyone in the town knows you and if you commit a crime then everyone will know that you did something wrong. People in North Dakota are very trustworthy because in the article we had to read it said that people will leave their cars running all day with no worry that someone will steal the car. As an other example a man in North Dakota works two jobs as a gas station attendant and a postmaster, he trusts the people of his town so much that he leaves the keys of the pumps for people to pay for gas and leave. This is why the two places have low crime rates because people trust each other and respect people belongings.
These two places both have a low crime rate but they both achieve through different methods. North Dakota believes that since their state is so cold all the time, that people don’t want to go outside during the long cold winters to cause trouble. At times during the winter, the temperature drops to forty below zero, many citizens just want to stay home and be warm. They believe cold weather does the trick because statistics show that in hotter states there have been more instances of murder, robbery and rape. The coldest states such as North Dakota, Vermont, Maine, Iowa and South Dakota have the least occurrences of the violet crimes. This differs from Japan because they do not experience the harsh cold winters like North Dakota has.
Japan has low crime rates because the country is very strict against crime. They prevent crime by having a strict juvenile center and crack down on illegal narcotics. Many young Japanese kids do not do drugs because the police are always cracking down on high school kids and dealers. Many people believe that drugs are what starts the problems of crimes because addicts need money to pay for their habit. Also a way to prevent crime is the family, as mentioned before honor is very important and kids do not want to dishonor their family and make them look bad. The crime sentences in Japan are short and but the conditions in the prisons are horrible, many of the convicted are not allowed to talk to other inmates and the cells are very small. Japan has many ways of preventing and stopping crime.
Crimes around the world occur a lot and most of the crimes revolve around firearms. In 1993 the United States reported that 16,189 people were killed by firearms and on the other hand Japan had only reported 38 kills by a firearm. Japan is effective by keeping their crime rate down because the government is very strict about fire arms and to obtain a permit for a weapon is extremely hard. In the United States reported that they have over 200 millions gun registered, while on the other hand the Japanese only have 425,000 registered weapons in the entire country. Japan keeps crime down by preventing and being tough on crime, while the United States is lenient with convicted felons.
There are many differences in the way Japan and North Dakota keep their crime rates down but in the end both of their averages are down. The Japanese take more steps to prevent crime while North Dakota relies on trust and cold weather to keep crime rates. But in the end the methods by both parties are effective because people can feel safe when traveling to Japan or North Dakota unlike places in the world and around in other states.
