Crime In Japan

Author : Paul Murphy
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781462918973

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True Crime Japan by Paul Murphy Pdf

A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year old woman is jailed for 10 months for stealing fried chicken. Like nearly all defendants in Japan, they both plead guilty. What happens between plea and sentencing is the subject of True Crime Japan. In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of Japanese society through a year's worth of criminal court cases in Matsumoto, a city 140 miles to the west of Tokyo. The defendants in these cases range from ruthless mobsters to average citizens, often committing similar crimes in rather different ways, and for different reasons. Based on court hearings and interviews with the defendants, their families, neighbors and lawyers—Murphy explores not only the motives of offenders but the culture of crime and punishment in Japan. The resulting true crime book provides a lens through which to view this honor-shame based, conformist culture, and shows how, in its role within that culture, the court system reveals Japan to be, surprisingly to some, a land of true individuals.

Author : Laura Bui,David P. Farrington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030140977

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Crime in Japan by Laura Bui,David P. Farrington Pdf

This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries. It examines explanations for crime and antisocial behaviour in Japan using research and theories from a psychological perspective. Topics covered include cultural explanations, developmental and life-course criminology, family violence and family risk factors, youth crime and early prevention, school factors and bullying, mental disorders, biosocial factors, psychopathy and sexual offending. In some parts, it challenges and refines the prevailing belief that Japan is a society characterised by low crime and little antisocial behaviour. This original project is the most up-to-date work on crime in Japan, and advances the important field of psychological criminology.

Author : Petra Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004124217

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Capital Punishment in Japan by Petra Schmidt Pdf

This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.

Author : John L. Apostolou,Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : UVA:X001219863

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Murder in Japan by John L. Apostolou,Martin Harry Greenberg Pdf

Author : David Ted Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195119862

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The Japanese Way of Justice by David Ted Johnson Pdf

The major achievements of Japanese criminal justice are thus inextricably intertwined with its most notable defects, and efforts to fix the defects threaten to undermine the accomplishments."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David E. Kaplan,Alec Dubro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0520215613

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Yakuza by David E. Kaplan,Alec Dubro Pdf

"A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the world's second largest economy... by far the most detailed and even-handed study of this important and neglected subject."—John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Reviews of original edition: "A superb study of Japan's underworld that is both entertaining and revealing. The authors miss none of the color and curious detail of the yakuza style, but at the same time go far beyond surface observations."—Far Eastern Economic Review "The book is laden with fascinating information, some of it heretofore unavailable in English."—Washington Post "Blend the Mafia with the Masons. Let them simmer a while, then fold in the Ku Klux Klan and you'll have the yakuza…. Important and timely…Yakuza will serve for years as the source document on Japanese organized crime."—San Jose Mercury News "State-of-the-art investigative reporting…must reading for those who consider themselves already highly conversant with yakuza activities…disturbing."—Journal of Asian Studies

Author : D. Leonardsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230290310

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Crime in Japan by D. Leonardsen Pdf

Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines criminal justice in Japan, and questions whether Japan really is facing social malaise, or if the media are simply creating a 'moral panic'.

Author : Sandra Wilson,Robert Cribb,Beatrice Trefalt,Dean Aszkielowicz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231542685

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Japanese War Criminals by Sandra Wilson,Robert Cribb,Beatrice Trefalt,Dean Aszkielowicz Pdf

Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried Japanese leaders. While the fairness of these trials has been a focus for decades, Japanese War Criminals instead argues that the most important issues arose outside the courtroom. What was the legal basis for identifying and detaining subjects, determining who should be prosecuted, collecting evidence, and granting clemency after conviction? The answers to these questions helped set the norms for transitional justice in the postwar era and today contribute to strategies for addressing problematic areas of international law. Examining the complex moral, ethical, legal, and political issues surrounding the Allied prosecution project, from the first investigations during the war to the final release of prisoners in 1958, Japanese War Criminals shows how a simple effort to punish the guilty evolved into a multidimensional struggle that muddied the assignment of criminal responsibility for war crimes. Over time, indignation in Japan over Allied military actions, particularly the deployment of the atomic bombs, eclipsed anger over Japanese atrocities, and, among the Western powers, new Cold War imperatives took hold. This book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the construction of the postwar international order in Asia and to our comprehension of the difficulties of implementing transitional justice.

Author : Jake Adelstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307378941

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Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein Pdf

NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.

Author : Giovanni Fiandaca
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387365428

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Women and the Mafia by Giovanni Fiandaca Pdf

The insightful essays in this book shine a new light on the roles of women within criminal networks, roles that in reality are often less traditional than researchers used to think. The book seeks to answer questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and traces the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world. The book offers up accounts of mafia women, and also tales of severe abuse and violence against women.

Author : Robert Whiting
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307765178

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Tokyo Underworld by Robert Whiting Pdf

A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world was Nick Zappetti, an ex-marine from New York City who arrived in Tokyo in 1945, and whose restaurant soon became the rage throughout the city and the chief watering hole for celebrities, diplomats, sports figures, and mobsters. Tokyo Underworld chronicles the half-century rise and fall of the fortunes of Zappetti and his comrades, drawing parallels to the great shift of wealth from America to Japan in the late 1980s and the changes in Japanese society and U.S.-Japan relations that resulted. In doing so, Whiting exposes Japan's extraordinary "underground empire": a web of powerful alliances among crime bosses, corporate chairmen, leading politicians, and public figures. It is an amazing story told with a galvanizing blend of history and reportage.

Author : L. Craig Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Crime
ISBN : 161163086X

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Crime and Justice in Japan and China by L. Craig Parker Pdf

There are many exciting and emerging developments in the justice systems of Japan and China. This book offers an analysis of the two systems with comparisons to the United States' system of criminal justice. Many of the issues explored reflect the fascinating cultural and historical foundations of the two countries. While sharing some interesting similarities, there are vast differences in how the criminal justice systems operate. One of the major themes of Crime and Justice in Japan and China is an examination of how each society's culture has influenced crime and justice. In fact it is evident that the cultural, economic and historical influences of these two Asian giants have had a more profound influence on their justice systems than the police, courts and prisons. "The discussion of the criminal justice system of and crime in Japan is an excellent introduction to these topics for the general reader and students new to the field of comparative criminal justice ... [R]eaders will come away with a better understanding of the highly politicized nature of the Chinese criminal justice system." --CHOICE Magazine

Author : William Clifford
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCAL:B3914833

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Crime Control in Japan by William Clifford Pdf

Author : L. Craig-Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317456070

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The Japanese Police System Today: A Comparative Study by L. Craig-Parker Pdf

What role do their respective police systems play in the very different crime rates of Japan and the United States? This study draws on direct observation of Japanese police practices combined with interviews of police officials, criminal justice practitioners, legal scholars, and private citizens. It compares many Japanese police practices side by side with U.S. police practices, and places the role of the police in the broader cultural and historical Japanese framework.

Author : Ted D. Westermann,James W. Burfeind
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015021892313

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Crime and Justice in Two Societies by Ted D. Westermann,James W. Burfeind Pdf