Japanese Society and Lay Participation in Criminal Justice Social Attitudes, Trust, and Mass Media /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Fujita, Masahiro (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Criminal law.; Civil procedure.; Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.; Civil Procedure Law.

This book describes the state of the lay participation system in criminal justice, saiban-in seido, in Japanese society. Starting with descriptions of the outlines of lay participation in the Japanese criminal justice system, the book deals with the questions of what the lay participants think about...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction: Lay participation to criminal justice system in Japan
• Introduction of the system and the interest of this book
• About this part
• The general outline of Japanese criminal justice system
• The outline of the system, saiban-in system
• Is the Purpose of implementing the Saiban-in System to reflect the "Sense of Citizens" ('Shimin-kankaku')?
• Saiban-in selection process
• The saiban-in system in practice
• Significant problems argued regarding the saiban-in system
• The Impact of Implementing the Saiban-in System
• Considerations on democratic moments of the saiban-in system: For futureresearch
• References
• 2 Social attitudes towards lay participation system in Japan
• About this chapter
• On social survey conducted by the Courts, answered by the lay participants
• Questionnaire surveys conducted by the Supreme Court of Japan
• Purpose of this section
• The first kind of surveys: Ex-saiban-in surveys
• The second kind of surveys: General public's attitudes and opinions
• Relationships between the people's attitudes towards participation into the justice system and people's personalities
• Problems and Objectives
• About personality and social attitudes
• The first paper
• New data in this article
• References
• 3 What's in the deliberations
• The deliberation with status differences
• Deliberation with informational differences.-Deliberation style in the deliberations with status differences
• References
• 4 Lay participation system and trust in the justice system
• Social survey on the relationships between general trust and the trust in the justice system
• The changes of the factors that determine trust in the justice system before and after the introduction of the saiban-in system
• References
• 5 Lay participation system in the society: Newspaper text analyses over the evaluation of the system
• The matters of interest and their chronological changes in major newspapers
• Appendix: Coding Rules
• References
• 6 General discussion over how the Japanese society thinks about the lay participation system
• The purpose of introduction and the state of the saiban-in system
• Social attitudes towards the saiban-in system
• Deliberations in the saiban-in system
• Impact on trust in the justice system
• Foci of media coverage
• Democratic values and "popular base" of the justice system
• Overall evaluation of the saiban-in system
• Remaining issues
• Satsuki Eda, reprise
• References
• Index. .