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- Title
THE JAPANESE POLICE.
- Authors
Wildes, Harry Emerson
- Abstract
The article presents information related to Japanese Police. The recent introduction of the jury system, the revision of the antiquated criminal code, the permission to establish labor unions and extension of the suffrage are providing problems which the statesmen of Japan, harassed by fear of revolution on the part of an oppressed town proletariat and of an exploited tenantry, seem ill-prepared to solve. To those familiar with law upon the Continent, the Japanese addiction to the theory that the prisoner must prove his innocence is not as startling as to the ordinary visitor, but the Japanese have seemingly improved upon their model. By strict letter of the press laws, reports of preliminary examinations are forbidden and all crime news, in theory, must be so toned down as to be neither sensational nor exaggerated. Reforms in the Criminal Code are now recognized as being most imperative, and for nearly three years a special Imperial Commission has been at work preparing a revision. Japan has long been suffering from the rowdyism of a class, called ronin who attempt by violence to terrify officials.
- Subjects
JAPAN; POLICE; JURY duty; CRIMINAL justice system; RONIN; PRESS law
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1928, Vol 19, Issue 3, p390
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1134628