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Summary
"This book is a welcome addition to the long tradition of writing on the police. Indeed it is a landmark in criminal justice scholarship. It is written by a scholar equally at home in English-speaking and Japanese scholarly traditions. As such it should be of interest to scholars of the police and criminal justice administration throughout the world.
"I think this is a terrific book. It's strength is that it will fill a huge void. There is a substantial demand for intelligent discussions of the Japanese police." --Malcolm Feeley, University of California, Berkeley
"This work is very original and represents an extremely important addition to scholarship regarding a group (Japanese detectives) that has never before been studied on the site. The insight it provides into Japanese culture is an important derivative product.
"Crime cases always have an inherent appeal, and when they illuminate how the 'inscrutable' Japanese detectives truly operate, their feelings, concerns, the way they regard and respect (and fail to do both) legal dictates, adds a real appeal to this work. The summary material is first-rate, and the questionnaires are an added plus.
"This is a fine cross-cultural contribution, done not by an outsider who is very likely to be fed, at least in some part, the party line, but by an insider who understood the language, was keenly aware of nuances, and spent a very great deal of time on field work." -- Gilbert Geis, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Irvine
This book is an observational study of the Japanese detective, demonstrating with extensive field data the process of criminal investigation. It is the first in-depth study of the Japanese criminal justice system at work. Utilizing Ericson's concept of "making crime, " Miyazawa analyzes the restraints under which Japanese detectives work, and the unique freedoms they have in the investigative process in comparison to American police generally. This book also provides a comparative analysis of law enforcement in Japan, the United States, and Europe, and questions how effectively these systems evaluate and enable investigative police work.
Setsuo Miyazawa is Professor of Law at Kobe University in Japan.
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