Can I read Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan (Japanese Studies) on EtoBox?

Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan (Japanese Studies) by Professor Wolfgang Herbert is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan (Japanese Studies) about?

This is a detailed study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of 'crimes' committed by foreigners. It shows that a general mood in which foreign workers are viewed as a potential danger to Japanese society 'protects' the criminalization of foreign 'illegal' migrant workers. The crime statistics are a result of this mood, a direct product of the willingness of the public to inform the police, the reactive and pro-active moves of the police, and of tough prosecution and harsh sentencing by the courts. The fashioning of a crime wave is shown to be a complex interaction between the mass media, the population, the executive and judiciary, both in general and in the case of particular policies on crime. Based on two years of field study in Japan, and a thorough analysis of Japanese media reports on foreign migrant workers in the years 1981-1990, culminating in the implementation of a new Immigration Control Act, it has implications for all countries with a large migrant worker population, and for the universal problem society has in dealing with

Who reads Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan (Japanese Studies)?

Author

Professor Wolfgang Herbert

Publisher

London ; New York: Kegan Paul International

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203845707

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Management, Business