Everyday justice : responsibility and the individual in Japan and the United States /

It is a fundamental human impulse to seek restitution or retribution when a wrong is done, yet individuals and societies assess responsibility and allocate punishment for wrongdoing in different ways. This book investigates how average citizens in the United States and Japan think about and judge va...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, V. Lee
Otros Autores: Sanders, Joseph, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1992]
Temas:
Criminal liability > Social aspects > Japan > Cross-cultural studies.
Criminal liability > Social aspects > United States > Cross-cultural studies.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Sociologie juridique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Criminal liability > Social aspects
Sociological jurisprudence
Rechtssoziologie
Responsabilité pénale > Aspect social > Japon.
Responsabilité pénale > Aspect social > Etats-Unis.
Crimes et criminels > Aspect sociologique.
Japan
United States
USA
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The problem of responsibility
  • Social structure and legal structure: a comparative view
  • Culture and the socialization process
  • Responsibility: a research agenda
  • Methods: experiments in surverys
  • Responsibility: the evidence
  • Punishment
  • Is crime special? Offenses against strangers
  • Empirical conclusions
  • Legal structure, legal culture, and convergence
  • The problem of justice.

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