Criminalization and Prisoners in Japan: Six Contrary Cohorts - Hardcover

Johnson Ph.D. B.A. M.A., Professor Emeritus Elmer H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809321122 ISBN 13: 9780809321124

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In his second book to deal with Japanese corrections, Elmer H. Johnson explores the cultural heritage and structure of the criminal justice administration that underlies Japan’s reluctance to use imprisonment, which he first examined in Japanese Corrections: Managing Convicted Offenders in an Orderly Society. Here Johnson introduces the concept of criminalization, its implications, and its two versions that differentiate four of the six cohorts who have entered prison in increasing numbers in recent decades: yakuza (Japanese mafia), adult traffic offenders, women drug offenders, and juvenile drug and traffic offenders. Foreigners and elderly inmates, the other two cohorts, elude criminalization as groups but also have become prisoners in greater numbers for other reasons.

About this title

About the Author:

Elmer H. Johnson is a distinguished professor emeritus of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His books include Crime, Correction, and Society and the edited volume Handbook on Crime and Delinquency Prevention.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0809321122
• ISBN 13: 9780809321124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328