Popular participation in Japanese criminal justice : from jurors to lay judges / Andrew Watson.

Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

©2016

KNX1610 .W38 2016

Jpn 865 W331 2016

9783319350769 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
3319350765 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9783319350776 (ebook)
3319350773 (ebook)

xi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

(OCoLC)946461697

"This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system. It takes a particular focus on the highly public start of the mixed court, the saiban-in system, and the jury system between 1928-1943. This was the first time Japanese citizens participated as decision makers in criminal law. The book assesses reasons for the jury system's failure, and its suspension in 1943, as well as the renewed interest in popular involvement in criminal justice at the end of the twentieth century. [This book] proceeds by explaining the process by which lay participation in criminal trials left the periphery to become an important national matter at the turn of the century. It shows that rather than an Anglo-American jury model, outline recommendations made by the Japanese Judicial Reform Council were for a mixed court of judges and laypersons to try serious cases. Concerns about the lay judge/saiban-in system are raised, as well as explanations for why it is flourishing in contemporary society despite the failure of the jury system during the period 1928-1943. The book presents the wider significance of Japanese mixed courts in Asia and beyond."-- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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