Tetsuya Fujimoto

Professor, Tokiwa International Victimology Institute, Graduate School of Victimology

After completing a doctoral course at Graduate School of Law of Chuo University majoring in the criminal law and criminal policy, Tetsuya Fujimoto studied at a graduate school of Florida State University as a teaching assistant. He then obtained a master’s degree in criminology in August, 1970. After that, he enrolled in the doctoral course of the Department of Criminology at University of California Berkley and received his Ph.D. in December, 1975. While teaching as a professor at Chuo University, he also worked as a guest professor at Tulane University and University of California Berkley, and as a visiting researcher at Australia National University Law School. He has been serving for various governmental & non-governmental organizations on significant posts such as a councilor of Correctional Association, lecturer for the Training Institute for Correctional Personnel of Ministry of Justice, adviser for The National Association of Volunteers for Juvenile Police Activities, board member of the Japan Rehabilitation Aid Association, board member of Japan Criminal Policy Society, board member of the Japanese Association of Victimology, board member of the National Institute for Job Assistance Business, chair of the Promotion of Research and Study on Methods of Juvenile Crime at Cabinet Office, member of the examination committee of Certified Social Workers, and so on. He joined Tokiwa University in April, 2011 and was appointed as a professor of TIVI as well as a professor of Graduate School of Victimology.