Offender Care and Support by Families in Contemporary Japan

Auteur

Mari Kita is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Illinois University. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2018. Her areas of interest include feminist criminology, crime and punishment in Japan, and criminological ethnography. She was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.

Texte du rabat

This book considers the role of the family in the lives of offenders and the criminal justice system in Japan.

Contenu

1.Introduction 2.Researching Offenders' Families in Japan 3."They Come in the Morning, the Police" 4.Gendered Acts of Offender Care and Support 5.Shame and Stigma 6.Ambivalence 7.Reform Implications and a Consideration for Patriarchy 8.Conclusions