This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the

This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few deve

This book examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and trust-based attitudinal factors relating to support for, and opposi

Describes five theories of substance abuse treatment and details how to translate each theory into actual practice. Material on 12-step, psychodynamic, behavior

The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as