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Japanese Society and Lay Participation in Criminal Justice

Social Attitudes, Trust, and Mass Media

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Authors:
  1. Masahiro Fujita

    1. Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

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  • 2019 Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention awarded by the Asian Criminology Society

  • Winner of the JASL Book Prize for 2019 awarded by the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law

  • Reveals what the Japanese think about the newly introduced lay participation system

  • Introduces ideas about the relation between general trust and trust in the justice system, and whether the introduction of the system has had an impact on trust in the justice system

  • Shows how the Japanese mass media have portrayed the system and the chronological changes in their treatment of it

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Lay Participation to Criminal Justice System in Japan

    • Masahiro Fujita
    Pages 1-73

  3. Social Attitudes towards Lay Participation System in Japan

    • Masahiro Fujita
    Pages 75-114

  4. What’s in the Deliberations: Two Deliberation Experiments with Status Differences

    • Masahiro Fujita
    Pages 115-174

  5. Lay Participation System and Trust in the Justice System

    • Masahiro Fujita
    Pages 175-218

  6. Lay Participation System in the Society: Newspaper Text Analyses over the Evaluation of the System

    • Masahiro Fujita
    Pages 219-264

  7. General Discussion Over How the Japanese Society Thinks About the Lay Participation System

    • Masahiro Fujita
    Pages 265-277

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 279-282
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About this book

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 the system after their participation, how the general public evaluate the system, whether the introduction of lay participation has promoted trust in the justice system in Japan, and the foci of Japanese society’s interest in the lay participation system. To answer these questions, the author utilizes data obtained from social surveys of actual participants and of the general public. The book also explores the results of quantitative text analyses of newspaper articles. With those data, the author describes how Japanese society evaluates the implementation of the system and discusses whether the system promotes democratic values in Japan.

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Winner of the JASL Book Prize for 2019 awarded by the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

    Masahiro Fujita

About the author

Masahiro Fujita is Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University. He received LL.B., LL.M., and Ph.D. in Law from the University of Tokyo and M.A. in Human System Sciences from Hokkaido University, both in Japan. He first specialized in Japanese criminal law, and then he proceeded to social psychology to integrate the viewpoints and methodology of jurisprudence and social psychology. He started to study the saiban-in system in 1999 when he was a master's course student at the time of the infancy of the system. He adopted the methods of experimental group decision making the study and social survey. While he was a Ph.D. student, he became an assistant professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan. After he completed his Ph.D. thesis, he expanded his research in the field of personality, trust, and "language and law."  After he moved to Kansai University as an associate professor at the Faculty of Sociology, he became a visiting scholar of the Center for the Study of Law & Society at the University of California, Berkeley on his sabbatical. He is an active member of the Law and Society Association in the United States, Japanese Society for Law and Psychology, Japanese Psychological Association, The Japanese Association of Sociology of Law and other related academic societies. He had been a member of the board of trustee of JSLP for nine years. He has been a member of editorial board of the Japanese Journal of  Law and Psychology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Japanese Society and Lay Participation in Criminal Justice

  • Book Subtitle: Social Attitudes, Trust, and Mass Media

  • Authors: Masahiro Fujita

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0338-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0337-0Published: 16 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3816-8Published: 19 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0338-7Published: 04 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Civil Procedure Law

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