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Book Administration of Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Japan

Download or read book Administration of Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Japan written by Upali A. Gooneratne and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Janus Faced Justice

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  • Author : Richard H. Mitchell
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824814106
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Janus Faced Justice written by Richard H. Mitchell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of the treatment of political criminal suspects and prisoners from 1868 to 1945, Richard H. Mitchell makes a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Japan's criminal justice system at a most critical juncture in that country's history. Through careful research and sensitive evaluation of the source materials, Mitchell identifies two contrasting themes--a high degree of state repression and a concern for human rights--and shows how a system that clearly involved considerable brutality, torture, and illegal detention also exhibited elements of humanity and fairness. He argues that this contradiction is best understood by viewing prewar Japan as a "paternalistic police state," in which brutality was the other side of benevolence. The scope of inquiry of this study encompasses a broad range of issues. It assays laws for control of political dissent as well as the origins of the movement for human rights of criminal suspects and convicts, giving special attention to the behavior of defense lawyers. It sorts out the actors and their roles in upholding or violating individual rights and does a superb job of conveying the subtle difficulties faced by judges as well as the markedly "un-American" legal context of political trials. It describes and makes critical distinctions between conditions in prisons and facilities for special detention and surveillance, and it challenges a number of common assumptions, including long-cherished views about the differences between the 1920s and 1930s. Numerous cases of alleged police brutality are evaluated and police actions analyzed. Tenko (conversion), a novel method of dealing with political criminal suspects and convicts, is explored together with the little-known Criminal Compensation Law. Throughout, the yardstick by which treatment of accused and convicted criminals is judged is the state's own laws and regulations. In addition to evaluation by these internal standards, Mitchell devotes his final chapter to a very useful comparison with the situation in Europe during the same period. There is no other work in English on precisely this subject and no other related work of this scope. Although Mitchell's focus is on political offenders, there is enough material on the overall system to make this volume easily the best available resource on prewar Japanese criminal justice.

Book Crime and Justice in Two Societies

Download or read book Crime and Justice in Two Societies written by Ted D. Westermann and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U N  Protection of Human Rights in the Administration of Criminal Justice

Download or read book U N Protection of Human Rights in the Administration of Criminal Justice written by B. M. Wali and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan

Download or read book Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan written by Jianhong Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan. It highlights similarities between the practice of criminology research in Japan, as well as important differences, with other areas of Asia and with the West. In previous decades, Japan attracted international attention as the only industrialized country where the crime rate declined along with a rise in urbanization and economic development. Currently, Japan still enjoys a declining crime rate (the lowest among major industrialized countries) and a study of criminal justice practices in Japan may provide important insights for other regions. Japan also experiences important contemporary challenges which are shared by other regions: 1. Japan has the highest proportion of people over the age of 60 in the world. For criminology, this means key challenges in the victimization of older people, as well as the challenges of an aging prison population. 2. Besides the United States, Japan is the only developed country that still practices capital punishment, and its rate has been on the rise in the past 20 years. 3. Japan has also introduced new reforms in its law practice, including the introduction of new trial formats. The research in this book provides a helpful overview for scholars interested in criminology and criminal justice in Japan to understand the key issues of concern, and present a framework for future research needs. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, international studies, Asian Studies, sociology, and political science.

Book The Criminal Justice System   Japan

Download or read book The Criminal Justice System Japan written by Lena Monica Anita Nilsson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protection of Human Rights in Criminal Justice Administration

Download or read book Protection of Human Rights in Criminal Justice Administration written by Manjula Batra and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Japanese Adversary System in Context

Download or read book The Japanese Adversary System in Context written by M. Feeley and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese legal system is at a crossroads. The contributors to this book explore the most important features of the adversary process as it works in the Japanese criminal justice system. Topics include the right to remain silent, wire tapping, the role of defence counsel, plea bargaining, the power of prosecutors, juvenile justice and judicial independence. Many of the essays seek comparison with practices in Anglo-American countries.

Book Lay and Expert Contributions to Japanese Criminal Justice

Download or read book Lay and Expert Contributions to Japanese Criminal Justice written by Erik Herber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the little or not previously researched roles and contributions of non-legal professionals in Japanese criminal justice against the background of recent social and legal changes that either gave birth to or affected the roles played by these "outsiders". On the basis of a wealth of primary and secondary sources, including meeting records of policy makers and practitioners, surveys, interviews and court verdicts, the book zooms in on forensic psychiatrists' role in the disappearance of criminally insane defendants from Japanese criminal courts; social workers' new role in diverting a growing number of elderly, mentally disturbed repeat offenders from prison; the therapeutic dimension added to Japanese criminal justice proceedings with the introduction of a system of victim participation as well as the increasingly important role of forensic scientists' contributions, notably DNA evidence, in Japanese courts. Finally, it examines lay judges' contributions to sentencing practices as well as how these lay judges make sense of the other outsiders' contributions. On the basis of very recent social and legal developments the book provides an original contribution to understandings of Japanese criminal justice, as well as more general socio-legal debates on the role of extra-legal knowledge in criminal justice. The book will be of value within BA and MA level courses on and to students and researchers of Japanese law and society as well as comparative criminal justice and socio-legal theory.

Book Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law

Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law written by Yumiko Nakanishi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book analyzes issues in human rights law from a variety of perspectives by eminent European and Asian professors of constitutional law, international public law, and European Union law. As a result, their contributions collected here illustrate the phenomenon of cross-fertilization not only in Europe (the EU and its member states and the Council of Europe), but also between Europe and Asia. Furthermore, it reveals the influence that national and foreign law, EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights, and European and Asian law exert over one another. The various chapters cover general fundamental rights and human rights issues in Europe and Asia as well as specific topics regarding the principles of nondiscrimination, women’s rights, the right to freedom of speech in Japan, and China’s Development Banks in Asia. Protection of human rights should be guaranteed in the international community, and research based on a comparative law approach is useful for the protection of human rights at a higher level. As the product of academic cooperation between ten professors of Japanese, Taiwanese, German, Italian, and Belgian nationalities, this work responds to such needs.

Book Forces of Order

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  • Author : David H. Bayley
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780520030695
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Forces of Order written by David H. Bayley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Rights In The Administration Of Justice

Download or read book Human Rights In The Administration Of Justice written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by New York and Geneva : United Nations. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent legal professionals play a key role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need access to information on human rights standards laid down in the main international legal instruments and to related jurisprudence developed by universal and regional monitoring bodies. This publication, which includes a manual and a facilitator's guide, seeks to provide a comprehensive core curriculum on international human rights standards for legal professionals. It includes a CD-ROM containing the full electronic text of the manual in pdf format.

Book Official Responses to Problem Juveniles

Download or read book Official Responses to Problem Juveniles written by Jim Hackler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hate Speech in Japan

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  • Author : Yuji Nasu
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-28
  • ISBN : 1108483992
  • Pages : 525 pages

Download or read book Hate Speech in Japan written by Yuji Nasu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis into the background of legal responses to, and wider implications of, hate speech in Japan.