Crime and Punishment in<scp>J</scp>apan

Hamai, Koichi; Ellis, Tom

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“…For example, as very suggestive indirect evidence, consider Japan's overwhelming reliance on private citizens and groups, rather than parole officers, to help convicts reintegrate into society after their release from prison. Probation supervision in Japan involves only around 800 professional probation officers and 50,000 volunteers in whose homes such supervision mainly takes place (Ellis, Lewis, and Sato 2011;Hamai and Ellis 2015). There is also concrete direct evidence in support of a similar trend in the immigration field.…”

Section: Private Refugee Sponsorshipmentioning

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Japan's Liberal-Democratic Paradox of Refugee Admission

Kalicki¹

2019

J of Asian Stud

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In-migration embodies the liberal-democratic paradox: the tension between the right of an individual and the collective will of a polity. This is well illustrated by escalating conflicts over admission of the “special category” of international migrants: refugees. Taking Japan as a notoriously difficult case, this paper analyzes recent developments in Japan's embattled refugee policy and argues that grassroots efforts by civil society provide a way to move beyond the current gridlock of the state-centric paradigm of refugee admission. Specifically, empirical evidence available to date suggests that private refugee sponsorship that enables individuals and community organizations to voluntarily sponsor the resettlement of UN-recognized refugees offers a viable policy instrument in Japan's context. While retaining the democratic communitarian outlook on admission of foreigners, the model injects liberal universalist qualities into immigration policy that are capable of motivating positive change domestically and, potentially, across East Asia at large.

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Section: Private Refugee Sponsorshipmentioning

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Japan's Liberal-Democratic Paradox of Refugee Admission

Kalicki¹

2019

J of Asian Stud

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“…The aggregated choices of vulnerable older individuals risk damaging the external image that Japan has cultivated for its otherwise strikingly low crime rate and lenient criminal justice system (e.g. Foote, 1992;Johnson, 2007;Hamai and Ellis, 2015;Suzuki and Otani, 2017).…”

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Subverting the prison: the incarceration of stigmatised older Japanese

Lawson¹

2021

International Journal of Law in Context

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This paper examines the presence of lonely, isolated and impoverished older citizens in Japan's prison population, many of whom have turned to petty crime only recently and arguably lack a genuine need for corrective services. The paper offers empirical evidence drawn from a mixed-methods study that appears to confirm their compliant, ‘law-abiding’ attributes. It argues that their influx into prisons can be seen, at least in part, as citizens who are already socially excluded and stigmatised leveraging law to assert an additional risk-laden and stigmatised identity, which provides protection. The outcome is the subversion of prisons as de facto aged-care communities. This analysis resonates with an emerging body of literature that Chua and Engel (2018; 2019) have described as the ‘Identity’ school of legal-consciousness scholarship. This literature centres on empirical studies of marginalised cohorts who leverage legal structures to embrace an identity that complicates their stigma while providing desired protections.

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“…National Police Agency's impression of the public's unmitigated affection for koban, it should be noted that dissatisfaction with the police in general has been reported to be increasing (Hamai and Ellis 2015). 7 'Japanese Community Police and Police Box System', National Police Agency, 31 August 2005, https://www.npa.go.jp/english/seisaku1/JapaneseCommunityPolice.pdf.…”

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Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice

Young

2019

The British Journal of Criminology

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Crime and Punishment inJapan

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Japan's Liberal-Democratic Paradox of Refugee Admission

Japan's Liberal-Democratic Paradox of Refugee Admission

Subverting the prison: the incarceration of stigmatised older Japanese

Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice

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