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David Johnson, PhD University of California - Berkeley
Faculty
Office Location: Saunders 217
Phone Number: 956-8462
Fax Number: 956-3707
Email: davidjoh@hawaii.edu

Background:

B.A. in Mathematics, Bethel College, Minnesota, 1983.

M.A. in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1989.

PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC-Berkeley, 1995.

Postdoc, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard, 1995-96.

Teaching:

I teach courses in law and society, comparative criminology, and Japanese and Asian studies.

Course Syllabi:

Advising:

Read good books.

Research:

David T. Johnson. The Japanese Way Of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2002). Received best book awards from the American Society of Criminology and the American Sociological Association.

David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring. The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Interest(s):

Dogs and sports.

 

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