Popular involvement in criminal justice: Should the jury return to Japan? And the question of mixed courts.

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WATSON, Andrew (2006). Popular involvement in criminal justice: Should the jury return to Japan? And the question of mixed courts. In: MARUTSCHKE, Hans Peter., (ed.) Laienrichter in Japan, Deutschland und Europa. Juristiche Weiterbildung . Berlin, Berliner Wissenschaft-Verlag, 110-186. [Book Section]

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This chapter examines the history of the interwar jury in Japan and the reasons for its lack of success. It then considers plans for the introduction of mixed courts of judges and lay people - the saiban-in system - in 2009.

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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Law and Criminology

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110-186

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9500-2249