Crime and Punishment in Japan: From Re-integrative Shaming to Popular Punitivism

Tom Ellis; K. Hamai

doi:10.1017/S1557466007020244

Crime and Punishment in Japan: From Re-integrative Shaming to Popular Punitivism

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

Tom Ellis and

K. Hamai

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In the late 1990s, press coverage of police scandals in Japan provoked policy reactions so that more ‘trivial’ offences were reported, and overall crime figures rocketed. The resulting ‘myth of the collapse of secure society’ appears, in turn, to have contributed to increasingly punitive public views about offenders and sentencing in Japan.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , e27

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466007020244 [Opens in a new window]
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