This article discusses a new subgenre of the Japanese crime novel, the “police novel,” from the perspective of judicial error. With the emergence of Yokoyama, the author of Season of Shadows, this subgenre takes on the task of describing the police as a self-regulating organization that realizes Crozier’s theory of the “vicious circle of bureaucracy,” which is best exemplified by judicial error. The latter, while enriching the subgenre, denounces the dysfunction of the police.
CLIL theme: 3260 -- DROIT -- Droit général
ISBN:978-2-406-11320-1
EAN:9782406113201
ISSN: 2729-2177
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11320-1.p.0153
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 03-08-2021
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: crime novel, Japan, judicial error, Hideo Yokoyama, Michel Crozier, bureaucracy, police, Japanese literature