Teacher Wang, Po-Chi was interviewed by The Epoch Times: Taiwanese teenagers drove without a license, analysis by crime prevention scholars

[The Epoch Times, October 18, 2024] (The Epoch Times reporter LAI,MIN-JU reported in Taipei, Taiwan)
A 15-year-old boy surnamed Zeng in Taipei City stole his grandfather’s car to go out on the 17th and crashed into a stinky tofu stall in Neihu District, killing three and two hurt. Experts said that a series of mistakes led to the entire incident, and the owner of the car keys should bear the greatest responsibility.

Wang, Po-Chi, an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Justice at Ming Chuan University, told the Epoch Times, “How could he obtain the keys so easily?” It turned out that because his grandfather was abroad, Zeng Nan went to the house of a relative who managed the car keys to steal the keys.

Wang, Po-Chi said that based on the analysis of three elements of the daily life theory of criminology, including the “motivated criminal” 15-year-old Zeng Nan who originally wanted to learn to drive; the “suitable subject” who happens to have a car to drive; and “the person with the ability to monitor is not present.” , being able to obtain the car keys directly from the relative’s house who managed the car keys, coupled with related interference factors, eventually led to the death of three people.

For the entire incident, the car key keeper should bear the greatest responsibility. Wang, Po-Chi believes that according to Taiwan’s licensing regulations, the legal age is 18 years old to obtain a car and motorcycle driver’s license. Zeng Nan has not yet reached the legal age. The key is the person who controls the car keys. Although the exact process is not yet known, why is it so easy to obtain a car key? If he could have paid more attention when he took the car keys, “perhaps today’s tragedy would not have happened.”

After the police searched, they found electronic cigarette cartridges in Zeng Nan’s bag, but no drug content was found in the test. Zeng Nan’s alcohol test value was also 0. His urine and blood were collected, and no drug reaction was found in the test, so the drug was ruled out. Possibility of driving and drunk driving.

In addition, some netizens posted that Zeng Nan’s community has a collection of car accident videos, which proves that he likes to watch accident videos for fun. There are also special effects of blood staining his cheeks, highlighting his inner desire for violence.

Wang, Po-Chi believes that the above two speculations can only be said to be “highly correlated”, but there may not be a causal relationship. From a risk management perspective, we can only say that such children who like blood may indeed be a high-risk group, but it cannot be said that this will definitely lead to such a result.

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