The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

• Auteur principal: Johnson, David T. (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Cham Springer Nature 2020
• Collection: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
• Sujets: Crime & criminology; Penology & punishment; Human rights; Criminology; Law-Asia; Corrections; Punishment; Victimology; Crime-Sociological aspects
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

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 similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences. These include differences in capital jurisprudence, execution method, the nature and extent of secrecy surrounding death penalty deliberations and executions, institutional capacities to prevent and discover wrongful convictions, orientations to lay participation and to victim participation, and orientations to "democracy" and governance. Johnson also explores several fundamental issues about the ultimate criminal penalty, such as the proper role of citizen preferences in governing a system of punishment and the relevance of the feelings of victims and survivors.;

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (125 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-32086-7

Accès

Open Access