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Stated at the general level, the question addressed by this book is: to what extent can the Japanese government defend its approach to the death penalty based on “popular support”. Is the retention of the death penalty so central to popular trust in the criminal justice system, that abolition would result in the erosion of political and judicial legitimacy? It was hypothesised that the Japanese public was uninformed about the death penalty due to the secrecy that surrounds its practice, and that this is driving up support for the death penalty.
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Sato, M. (2014). Conclusion. In: The Death Penalty in Japan. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00678-5_8
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