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In this study, I analyzed the aspect of Juvenile crime novel according to the emergence and the spread of 'darkness of mind' after the Kobe Children Murders. Since the Kobe incident, the 'darkness of mind' spread by media coverage has been used as all of concepts that represent the danger and pathology in the minds of boys and girls, and finally settled in Japanese society. In this study, I aim to investigate the role of literature by examining how it affected novels and how it appeared. Novels accept and spread the 'darkness of mind', while criticizing the social phenomenon by quoting it directly. First, as the collapse of the social system made it impossible to explain social problems as , people begins to pay attention to the inside of the individual. Due to this situation, the 'darkness of mind' replaced all of problems. Novels try to criticizes this idleness situation, and points out the limitations of the phenomenon that this caused discontinuation of understanding among the generations. Next, the criticism that indiscriminate abuse in the media coverage made imitation crime was extremely emphasized. Novels show and warn through the story, that as a result of indiscriminating report and using the 'darkness of mind' conveniently without an proper interpreting, it has become a cause of a new crime. After the Kobe incident, the ‘darkness of mind’ was accepted and spread even in novels. At the same time, however, novels with a critical point of view emerged from the early period of 2001, and since it showed an effort to overcome the conventional perception, I can tell that novels tried to achieve the social role.
