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The politics of police detention in Japan : consensus of convenience /

"Filling a huge vacuum of scholarship on the Japanese criminal justice system, The Politics of Police Detention in Japan: Consensus of Convenience shines a spotlight on the remand procedure for criminal suspects in Japan, where the twenty-three-day duration for which individuals can be held in...

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Main Authors: Croydon, Silvia, 1978
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford, UK :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Subjects:
Detention of persons > Japan
Summary: "Filling a huge vacuum of scholarship on the Japanese criminal justice system, The Politics of Police Detention in Japan: Consensus of Convenience shines a spotlight on the remand procedure for criminal suspects in Japan, where the twenty-three-day duration for which individuals can be held in police custody prior to being indicted is the longest amongst developed nations. In practice, the average length of suspect detention in police cells is even longer due to multiple charges being imposed, and there is very little use of detention facilities independent of the investigation, with only 2
Carrier Form: xxi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-207) and index.
ISBN: 9780198758341
0198758340
Index Number: HV8486
CLC: D931.34
Call Number: D931.34/C954
Contents: Introduction. Japan's police detention system in perspective ; Additional motivation for studying police detention in Japan ; Some important caveats ; What produces policy divergences? ; An institutional approach -- Methodology -- What lies ahead -- Origin of the modern system of police custody. Administrative musical chairs and the birth of substitute prison ; A tool for political oppression in the pre-war period ; Occupation reforms: job half done ; The scene being set, enter the players ; Conclusion -- A tale of two detention bills ; Two bills or not two bills. Monkey on the MOJ's back ;

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