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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Takahiro NAKAGAWA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
1-7
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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Kotaro TAKAGI
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
8-11
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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Kana SASAKURA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
12-20
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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Yoshiko HABUCHI
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
21-24
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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Nanae TOYOSAKI
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
25-32
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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Mitsuaki MURAYAMA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
33-36
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The Special Report: Revisiting the Potentials of Law and Psychology
Akira GOTO, Yuji SHIRATORI, Sumio HAMADA, Makiko NAKA, Yasushi OHASHI, ...
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
37-59
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Workshops at the Twenty-first Congress of JSLP
Toshiya YAMAMOTO, Akio ISHIZUKA, Mitsuaki MURAYAMA, Sumio HAMADA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
60-66
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Workshops at the Twenty-first Congress of JSLP
Katsumi MATSUMOTO, Tomiyuki OGAWA, Yuko YASUDA, Yoko YOSHIDA, Sungeun ...
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
67-73
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Workshops at the Twenty-first Congress of JSLP
Saki YAMADA, Ai ONOHARA, Sungeun KIM, Satoshi GATO, Yuko YAMASAKI, Mit ...
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
74-82
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Workshops at the Twenty-first Congress of JSLP
Yui FUKUSHIMA, Karin TOZUKA, Daisuke TOYAMA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
83-90
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Workshops at the Twenty-first Congress of JSLP
Akiko TANAKA, Yoshiko HABUCHI, Makiko NAKA, Yuko YASUDA, Shuko TANAKA, ...
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
91-97
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Masahiro FUJITA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
98-108
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This paper points out the problem of the Japanese Supmere Court taking the position that it is free to watch the media report on the criminal trials with referring to the findings of empirical psychological research. Media coverage, especially released before the trials, is referred to as pretrial publicity. According to the findings of empirical psychological studies, pretrial publicity is likely to influence the judgment of juries and the saiban-ins. And once affected, it is difficult to remove by various remedies. The author concluded that it is problematic that the Supreme Court allows the saiban-ins to unrestricted access to case reports during the trial period. It is desirable to ask at least the saiban-ins who are involved in the trial to refrain from accessing the reports of the case. Today citizens can connect to the Internet with their smartphones and obtain news information at any time. Under this circumstance, it will be necessary for the court to draw the attention of the citizens who can be saiban-ins about pretrial publicity and minimize its impact.
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Yuri TANIGUCHI, Tomoko IKEGAMI
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
109-122
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A previous study (Taniguchi and Ikegami, 2018) revealed that the psychological distance from a criminal case influences the cognitive processes underlying judicial decisions regarding a defendant. In this study, we investigated whether this effect of psychological distance on the judicial decision could be inhibited through instructions to accurately judge the case. Participants were exposed to a short scenario describing a robbery and murder case that occurred a few decades or months ago. Then, their implicit and explicit inferences regarding the defendant were measured. Accuracy instructions were given to participants before or after presenting them with the scenario of the case. The results indicated that the effect of psychological distance on judicial decision processes was inhibited when the accuracy instructions were given before presenting the case. Conversely, its effect of psychological distance was not inhibited or was even enhanced when the accuracy instructions were given after presenting the case. The implications of these findings for court judgments are discussed regarding punishment fairness.
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Tomoya MUKAI, Yuma MATSUKI, Yuki YUYAMA, Masahiro SADAMURA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
123-128
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This study aimed to explore how fear of crime and perceived risk of crime relate to support for the death penalty, distinguishing fear on a social and individual level. Previous studies have shown that a hypothetical model that assumes that perceived risk precedes the fear of crime fits data well. Further, it has been shown that support for harsher punishment positively relates to social-level fear of crime. Building on these findings, this study tests a model that assumes that social/individual perceived risk relates to social/individual fear of crime, and fear of crime, in turn, relates to support for death penalty. Further, it was hypothesized that, among the two levels of fear of crime, only social-level fear of crime relates to support for the death penalty. The results of the structural equation modeling showed that the hypothetical model had acceptable fits. Investigating individual paths has revealed that consistent with the hypothesis, support for death penalty is positively related to social-level fear of crime, but not with individual-level fear of crime.
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Effects of Delay and Place on Recollection of Eyewitness Memory
Kayo MATSUO, Hiroshi MIURA
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
129-134
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The Self-Administered Interview© (SAI©) was developed for the purpose of obtaining eyewitness memory from multiple eyewitnesses at a time. Because the SAI is a paper-and-pencil questionnaire, eyewitnesses can report their memory by handwriting at their own pace. The effectiveness of the SAI has been demonstrated by several experimental studies; however, its applicability may remain obscure given that the experimental environment is far different from a real-world situation. The present study focused on time and place for recalling eyewitness memory and investigated the practical applicability of the SAI. Participants recalled memory either soon after watching a video at a place they watched the video or in the evening they watched a video at home. Participants in the former condition recalled better than did those in the latter overall; however, there were no differences between them for the accuracy rate and recollection by sketching. The practical applicability of the SAI is discussed.
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Focus on Near-field Societies
Koichi HAMAI
2021 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages
135-137
Published: 2021
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