RT Article
T1 Crime Control in Japan: exceptional, Convergent or What Else?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 6
SP 1547
OP 1566
A1 Brewster, David
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738233103
AB Theories about crime control in Japan have largely been based around two opposing traditions. On the one hand, cultural explanations have emphasized the exceptional attributes of Japanese social relations that contribute towards shaming and re-integrative processes. On the other hand, more recent explanations assert that Japanese crime control is converging with other countries, particularly towards penal populism. Both approaches tend to reduce explanations to a monolithic characterization that disguises variegation within Japan. Through considering the governance of illegal drug use and the Kamagasaki area of Osaka, a ‘geo-historical’ perspective is advocated to better capture the complexity and contradictions of globalizing processes and social culture and their resulting manifestations in crime control within contemporary Japan.
K1 Japan
K1 Culture
K1 Exceptionalism
K1 Punitivism
K1 Convergence
K1 Geo-historical
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa048