Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice

From Jurors to Lay Judges

By:

Andrew Watson

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia

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This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system. It takes a particular focus on the highly public start of the mixed court, the saiban-in system, and the jury system between 1928-1943. This was the first time Japanese citizens participated as decision makers in criminal law. The book assesses reasons for the jury system's failure, and its suspension in 1943, as well as the renewed interest in popular involvement in criminal justice at the end of the twentieth century. Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice proceeds by explaining the process by which lay participation in criminal trials left the periphery to become an important national matter at the turn of the century. It shows that rather than an Anglo-American jury model, outline recommendations made by the Japanese Judicial Reform Council were for a mixed court of judges and laypersons to try serious cases. Concerns about the lay judge/saiban-in system are raised, as well as explanations for why it is flourishing in contemporary society despite the failure of the jury system during the period 1928-1943. The book presents the wider significance of Japanese mixed courts in Asia and beyond, and in doing so will be of great interests to scholars of socio-legal studies, criminology and criminal justice.

Author Biography:

Andrew Watson is Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has previously worked at Niigata University, Japan, and the College of Law, London, UK.

Release date Australia

November 4th, 2016

Author

Andrew Watson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

XI, 177 p.

Pages

177

Series

Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia

Dimensions

148x210x16

ISBN-13

9783319350769

Product ID

25224245

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