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(★)(1.Completing Elmer H. Johnson´s impressive three-volume examination of corrections in Japan,´Linking Community and corrections in Japan ［written with the assistance of Carol H. Johnson］´ focuses on the Rehabilitation Bureau´s responsibilities regarding probation, parole, and aftercare as well as the Correction Bureau´s role in Japan´s version of community-oriented corrections. In´Linking Community and Corrections in Japan´, Johnson first outlines tha tasks of the Rehabilitation Bureau, then turns to historic and contemporary views of community and corrections. In discussions of the probation and parole system for both adults and juveniles, he describes in detail the Japanese version of supervision and the return of prisoners to the community. One strength of this study is Johnson´s impartiality. As an investigator, he functions as a´friend of the court´, an adviser who is free to conduct an objective pursuit of the fundamental strengths and shortcomings of the Japanese prison system. He also follows the Foucauldian dictum :´With the prisons there would be no sense of limiting oneself to discourses about prisons ; just as important are the discourses which arise within the prison, the decisions and regulations which are among its constituent elements, its means of functioning, along with its strategies.´ Johnson provides sixty tables, two charts, and nineteen black-and-white illustrations. 2.Elmer H. Johnson is a distinguished professor emeritus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In addition to ´Japanese Corrections : Managing Convicted Offenders in an Orderly Society´ and´Criminalization and Prisoners in Japan : Six Contrary Cohorts´, he is the author of ´Crime, Corrections, and Society´and the editor of the ´International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Criminology´ and the´Handbook on Crime and Delinquency Prevention´. Carol H.Johnson specializes in gerontology. While in Japan, she studied services for the elderly and traditional Japanese crafts.) |
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