The Death Penalty in Japan Will the Public Tolerate Abolition? /

• Main Author: Sato, Mai (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.

Mai Sato examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and attitudinal factors relating to support for, and opposition to, the death penalty. She uses a mixed-method approach and mounts quantitative and qualitative surveys to assess Japanese death penalty attitudes....

Table of Contents:

• Vox populi, vox dei?
• Public attitudes towards death penalty
• The undecided public
• Effect of information on attitudes
• Changes in attitudes
• Policy implications.