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100	1		_aSato, Mai. _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Death Penalty in Japan _h[electronic resource] : _bWill the Public Tolerate Abolition? / _cby Mai Sato.
264		1	_aWiesbaden : _bSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : _bImprint: Springer VS, _c2014.
300			_aXX, 235 p. 25 illus. _bonline resource.
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505	0		_aVox populi, vox dei? -- Public attitudes towards death penalty -- The undecided public -- Effect of information on attitudes -- Changes in attitudes -- Policy implications.
520			_aMai 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. The author’s main findings show that death penalty attitudes are not fixed but fluid. Information has a significant impact on reducing support for the death penalty while retributive attitudes are associated with support. This book offers a new conceptual framework in understanding the death penalty without relying on the usual human rights approach, which can be widely applied not just to Japan but to other retentionist countries.   Contents ·         Public Attitudes towards the Death Penalty ·         Critical Examination of the Japanese Government Survey ·         Experimental Survey Examining the Impact of Information on Support for the Death Penalty     Target Groups ·         Researchers and students in the fields of sociology, law, political sciences, criminology, socio-legal studies, Japan studies and Asian studies ·         NGOs, policymakers, civil society       The Author Mai Sato completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2011. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Research Officer at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
650		0	_aSocial sciences.
650	1	4	_aSocial Sciences.
650	2	4	_aSocial Sciences, general.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783658006778
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00678-5
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