The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
Publication year: 2020
: 978-3-030-32086-7
This 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.
: Law and Criminology, Asian Criminology, Prison and Punishment, Human Rights and Crime, Victimology, Crime and Society, Human Rights, death penalty, democracy and punishment, wrongful convictions, capital jurisprudence, crime in Japan, homicide
