Everyday Justice: Responsibility and the Individual in Japan and the United States

by V Lee Hamilton, Joseph Sanders, Lee V Hamilton

Book Overview

It is a fundamental human impulse to seek restitution or retribution when a wrong is done, yet individuals and societies assess responsibility and allocate punishment for wrongdoing in different ways. This book investigates how average citizens in the United States and Japan think about and judge various kinds of wrongdoing, how they determine who is responsible when things go wrong, and how they prefer to punish offenders.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300060726
• ISBN13: 9780300060720
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"