Overview
- Provides the most comprehensive analysis of participation by ordinary citizens in Japanese criminal justice
- Presents interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from criminology, sociology, law and history
- Discusses participation by ordinary citizens in Japanese criminal justice from 1920 to the present
Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia (PACCJA)
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Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice proceeds by explaining the process by which lay participation in criminal trials left the periphery to become an important national matter at the turn of the century. It shows that rather than an Anglo-American jury model, outline recommendations made by the Japanese Judicial Reform Council were for a mixed court of judges and laypersons to try serious cases. Concerns about the lay judge/saiban-in system are raised, as well as explanations for why it is flourishing in contemporary society despite the failure of the jury system during the period 1928-1943. The book presents the wider significance of Japanese mixed courts in Asia and beyond, and in doing so will be of great interests to scholars of socio-legal studies, criminology and criminal justice.
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Book Title: Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice
Book Subtitle: From Jurors to Lay Judges
Authors: Andrew Watson
Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35077-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35076-9Published: 04 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81717-0Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-35077-6Published: 26 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-2878
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 177
Topics: Crime and Society, Prison and Punishment, History of Japan, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Criminological Theory, Civil Procedure Law