The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some sim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, David T. author (author)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2020
Cham : 2020.
Edición:1st ed. 2020.
Colección:Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
Materias:
Criminology.
Law—Asia.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Human rights.
Victimology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Asian Criminology.
Prison and Punishment.
Human Rights and Crime .
Crime and Society.
Human Rights.
Criminology
Law—Asia
Corrections
Punishment
Human rights
Victimology
Crime—Sociological aspects
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430461406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Why Does Japan Retain Capital Punishment?
  • 2.Is Death Different? Two Ways Law Can Fail
  • 3. When the State Kills in Secret
  • 4. Wrongful Convictions and the Culture of Denial in Japan
  • 5. Capital Punishment and Lay Participation in Japan
  • 6. The Death Penalty and Democracy.

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