Forces of Order: Policing Modern Japan

by David H. Bayley

Book Overview

In sharp contrast to the United States, Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and practically no police brutality or corruption. Urban congestion is often blamed for the soaring crime rate in the United States and the waning public confidence in the American police force, yet Japan's population per square mile is almost thirty times that of ours. In Forces of Order, originally published in 1976 and now thoroughly revised and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520072626
• ISBN13: 9780520072626
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"