Sho Sagara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sho Sagara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sho |
| FAMILY NAME | Sagara |
| SIGNATURE | SAGARA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saitama Prefectural University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5095-7893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconsidering Desistance: Community Entry and Its Protective and Harm-Generating Dimensions
This article reconsiders recent developments in desistance theory by focusing on entry into community. Desistance research has expanded from primary and secondary desistance to tertiary desistance, concerning recognition and belonging, and quaternary desistance, concerning ordinariness. While these concepts shift attention from individual change to relational and social conditions, community entry should not be treated as unconditionally desirabl…
Care crisis or crime? Japanese news framing of caregiver eldercide, 2000–2024
Media discourse plays a critical role in shaping how crime is understood, influencing both public sentiment and policy debates. In Japan, where population ageing is rapid and family-based care remains culturally valued, eldercide by family caregivers receives considerable media attention. Yet, little is known about how the press frames such incidents. Drawing on qualitative document analysis of 48 articles published between 2000 and 2024 in a lea…
Between condemnation and compassion: Sentencing narratives of eldercide by family caregivers in Japanese criminal courts
Despite increasing public concern over caregiver homicides, little research has examined how judges characterize and rationalize these crimes in sentencing. This article investigates how Japanese courts narrate and justify punishment in cases of eldercide committed by family caregivers. Drawing on 91 district-court sentencing decisions between 2000 and 2024, retrieved from the LEX/DB database, the study employs qualitative content analysis of the…
When Care Becomes Killing: Exploring the Motives for Eldercide by Family Caregivers in Japan
Eldercide by family caregivers reflects the intersection of aging, caregiving, and violence, yet its motives remain underexplored. This study qualitatively analyses 91 Japanese sentencing decisions (2000–2024). Four motives emerged: financial strain, mercy, caregiving burden, and resentment. Courts often distinguished between sympathetic motives, such as mercy and despair, and condemnable ones, such as resentment or financial prioritisation, shap…
A path to tertiary desistance: A qualitative metasynthesis
The emergence of tertiary desistance underscores the need to go beyond the current focus on behavioral and identity/cognitive transformation in desistance research and take into account the social context that impacts desisters. This study aims to explore the experiences of people with a criminal history during the tertiary desistance phase by conducting a qualitative metasynthesis. We conducted literature searches across seven databases in Janua…
Continuity and change in drug treatment: Regimes of control in Japan
Comparing the determinants of punitiveness in Japan and Costa Rica
While there is a growing interest in the comparative analysis of individuals' punitiveness, research comparing its determinants across societies remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the differences and similarities in the determinants of individual punitiveness in two societies with differing characteristics: Japan and Costa Rica. Drawing on a model based on the (late) modernisation perspective, we conducted multi-grou…
Comparing the determinants of punitiveness in Japan and Costa Rica
While there is a growing interest in the comparative analysis of individuals' punitiveness, research comparing its determinants across societies remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the differences and similarities in the determinants of individual punitiveness in two societies with differing characteristics: Japan and Costa Rica. Drawing on a model based on the (late) modernisation perspective, we conducted multi-grou…
A path to tertiary desistance: A qualitative metasynthesis
The emergence of tertiary desistance underscores the need to go beyond the current focus on behavioral and identity/cognitive transformation in desistance research and take into account the social context that impacts desisters. This study aims to explore the experiences of people with a criminal history during the tertiary desistance phase by conducting a qualitative metasynthesis. We conducted literature searches across seven databases in Janua…
Continuity and change in drug treatment: Regimes of control in Japan
Comparing the determinants of punitiveness in Japan and Costa Rica
While there is a growing interest in the comparative analysis of individuals' punitiveness, research comparing its determinants across societies remains scarce. This study aims to address this gap by examining the differences and similarities in the determinants of individual punitiveness in two societies with differing characteristics: Japan and Costa Rica. Drawing on a model based on the (late) modernisation perspective, we conducted multi-grou…
A path to tertiary desistance: A qualitative metasynthesis
The emergence of tertiary desistance underscores the need to go beyond the current focus on behavioral and identity/cognitive transformation in desistance research and take into account the social context that impacts desisters. This study aims to explore the experiences of people with a criminal history during the tertiary desistance phase by conducting a qualitative metasynthesis. We conducted literature searches across seven databases in Janua…
Reconsidering Desistance: Community Entry and Its Protective and Harm-Generating Dimensions
This article reconsiders recent developments in desistance theory by focusing on entry into community. Desistance research has expanded from primary and secondary desistance to tertiary desistance, concerning recognition and belonging, and quaternary desistance, concerning ordinariness. While these concepts shift attention from individual change to relational and social conditions, community entry should not be treated as unconditionally desirabl…
Care crisis or crime? Japanese news framing of caregiver eldercide, 2000–2024
Media discourse plays a critical role in shaping how crime is understood, influencing both public sentiment and policy debates. In Japan, where population ageing is rapid and family-based care remains culturally valued, eldercide by family caregivers receives considerable media attention. Yet, little is known about how the press frames such incidents. Drawing on qualitative document analysis of 48 articles published between 2000 and 2024 in a lea…
Between condemnation and compassion: Sentencing narratives of eldercide by family caregivers in Japanese criminal courts
Despite increasing public concern over caregiver homicides, little research has examined how judges characterize and rationalize these crimes in sentencing. This article investigates how Japanese courts narrate and justify punishment in cases of eldercide committed by family caregivers. Drawing on 91 district-court sentencing decisions between 2000 and 2024, retrieved from the LEX/DB database, the study employs qualitative content analysis of the…
When Care Becomes Killing: Exploring the Motives for Eldercide by Family Caregivers in Japan
Eldercide by family caregivers reflects the intersection of aging, caregiving, and violence, yet its motives remain underexplored. This study qualitatively analyses 91 Japanese sentencing decisions (2000–2024). Four motives emerged: financial strain, mercy, caregiving burden, and resentment. Courts often distinguished between sympathetic motives, such as mercy and despair, and condemnable ones, such as resentment or financial prioritisation, shap…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Elder Abuse and Neglect (3 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works)