David T. Johnson

University of Hawaii at Mānoa Honolulu, HI, USA Background In my last semester as an undergraduate at Bethel College in Minnesota, I encountered Professor Paul Wiebe in a Sociology of Religion class. Dr. Wiebe was raised in south India, and his teaching helped me see how distinctive and problematic some features of American society are. As a result of his class, when an opportunity arose to teach English in Japan, I took it, hoping that a year abroad would further develop my comparative perspective. While in Japan, a stranger in a train station gave me a leaflet which raised concerns about police interrogations and wrongful convictions in Japanese criminal justice. My interests in criminal justice and Japan and sushi took off from there. Education Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1997 PhD, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 1996 MA, Sociology, University of Chicago, 1989 BA, (Summa Cum Laude) in Mathematics, Minor in Sociology, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1983 Certificate, Intensive Program in Advanced Japanese, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan, 1988 Courses SOC 218: Introduction to Social Problems SOC 333: Survey of Criminology SOC 336: Deviant Behavior and Social Control SOC 357: Sociology of Japan SOC 374: Law, Politics and Society SOC 431: Analysis in Criminology/Juvenile Delinquency SOC 432: Analysis in Corrections SOC 632: Criminal Justice System Research My teaching and research focus on criminal justice (police, prosecutors, and punishment, mainly in Japan and the US), comparative law and society, and the death penalty.University of Hawaii at Mānoa Honolulu, HI, USA Background In my last semester as an undergraduate at Bethel College in Minnesota, I encountered Professor Paul Wiebe in a Sociology of Religion class. Dr. Wiebe was raised in south India, and his teaching helped me see how distinctive and problematic some features of American society are. As a result of his class, when an opportunity arose to teach English in Japan, I took it, hoping that a year abroad would further develop my comparative perspective. While in Japan, a stranger in a train station gave me a leaflet which raised concerns about police interrogations and wrongful convictions in Japanese criminal justice. My interests in criminal justice and Japan and sushi took off from there. Education Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1997 PhD, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 1996 MA, Sociology, University of Chicago, 1989 BA, (Summa Cum Laude) in Mathematics, Minor in Sociology, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1983 Certificate, Intensive Program in Advanced Japanese, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan, 1988 Courses SOC 218: Introduction to Social Problems SOC 333: Survey of Criminology SOC 336: Deviant Behavior and Social Control SOC 357: Sociology of Japan SOC 374: Law, Politics and Society SOC 431: Analysis in Criminology/Juvenile Delinquency SOC 432: Analysis in Corrections SOC 632: Criminal Justice System Research My teaching and research focus on criminal justice (police, prosecutors, and punishment, mainly in Japan and the US), comparative law and society, and the death penalty.