The Death Penalty in Japan Will the Public Tolerate Abolition?
Mai 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
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Mai Sato
The Death Penalty in Japan Will the Public Tolerate Abolition?
Mai Sato London, United Kingdom
King’s College London, UK, 2011
ISBN 978-3-658-00677-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-00678-5
ISBN 978-3-658-00678-5 (eBook)
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Dedicated to Toto & Cha-chan
Foreword In The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate Abolition?, Mai Sato provides a significant theoretical contribution to the debate on the death penalty. While countless scholars and international organisations – particularly outside the US – approach the death penalty primarily from a human rights perspective, Sato attempts to engage with the justifications for retention that follow a sociolegal approach, based on subjective legitimacy: in other words, popular support. Across abolitionist jurisdictions, and within supranational and national bodies that oppose the death penalty, abolition is seen as a matter of principle, with the doctrine
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