Faculty Information - YASUHIRO MARUYAMA

■ Present specialized field

Criminal law

■ Book and thesis

1.	Article	Criminalized the Deviant Behavior: What is the problem of the Law Reform about Marijuana Law in Japan Quarterly Keiji-Bengo 122,pp.104-111 (Single) 2025/04/20
2.	Article	The Issues of Prohibition for Using Cannabis Keiho Zasshi pp.580-585 (Single) 2025/03/31
3.	Article	Harm Reduction version 2.0 HOUGAKU Seminar (837),pp.86-92 (Single) 2024/10/01
4.	Article	We are looking for the Origin of Modern Japanese Prison Keisei 135(5),pp.66-67 (Single) 2024/05/01
5.	Article	Making Good and "Japanese Imprisonment" Keisei 135(1),pp.74-75 (Single) 2024/01
6.	Article	We Should Talk About "Be Yourself" in Problematic Cannabis Using HOUGAKU Seminar (826),pp.44-50 (Single) 2023/11/01
7.	Article	For Whom the Bell Tolls of Rehabilitation KEISEI pp.64-65 (Single) 2023/09
8.	Article	"Stand By Me" of Related Persons who Involved in the "Crime" KEISEI 134(5),pp.78-79 (Single) 2023/05
9.	Article	What is the "Problem" that Problem Solving Court have to solve? RYUKOKU HOUGAKU 55(4),pp.135-164 (Single) 2023/03
10.	Article	What Can We Learn from Thailand's Drug Policy pp.40-50 (Single) 2023/02/28
11.	Article	An Encouragement of Learning for Criminal Justice 134(1),pp.88-89 (Single) 2023/01
12.	Article	The Sound of Silence in Criminal Justice KEISEI 133(5),pp.56-57 (Single) 2022/05
13.	Article	What is the Problem about Legalization for Drug Using The Therapeutic Justice Journal pp.10-15 (Single) 2022/03
14.	Article	Would it be Possible to Solve the Drug Problems without Punishment? Crime and Punishment 59(1),pp.109-117 (Single) 2021/12
15.	Article	A Letter from Berkeley Therapeutic Jurisprudence Journal pp.19-21 (Single) 2020/03
16.	Article	A Report of NADCP Therapeutic Jurisprudence Journal pp.16-18 (Single) 2020/03
17.	Article	Whether Starting Drug Court in Japan is possible or not The Toshi MONDAI (Municipal Problems) 110(10),pp.19-23 (Single) 2019/11
18.	Article	Current Japanese Drug Policy: Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology (Single) 2018/10
19.	Article	What can we learn from European Harm Reduction Policy. Gendai Business (Web Magazine) (Single) 2018/09
20.	Article	Drug Treatment for Drug Abusers in Criminal Jusitice Systems: Who's Right and Duty for Recovery Journal of Criminal Law 57(2),pp.229-247 (Single) 2018/03
21.	Article	Drug Policy in USA:The Social Welfare Service in Criminal Justice Systems 50(3),pp.1056-1068 (Single) 2018/02
22.	Article	New Trends of Ameican Drug Policy Japanese Journal of Addiction & Family pp.7-10 (Single) 2017/11
23.	Article	Past and Future of Drug Policy in Japan: What can we learn from America and Europe Japanese Journal of Psychiatric Treatment Vol.32(No.11),pp.1465-1470 (Single) 2017/11
24.	Article	Contemporary Japanese Drug Policy: Compulsory and Coerced Treatment for Drug Addicts in Criminal Justice System Kyousei Koza 32,pp.171-177 (Single) 2012/03
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■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	The Criminal Detention and Treatment Act in New Era (Collaboration) 2025/10/30
2.	Book	What Should We Learn About Death Penalty? (Single) 2025/05/09
3.	Book	"Using Cannabis" is a Crime?: Marijuana policy and Diversity pp.172-192 (Collaboration) 2022/02/28
4.	Book	Behavioral Addiction in Criminal Case pp.229-265 (Collaboration) 2021/03/08
5.	Book	Addiction Studies pp.140-155 (Collaboration) 2020/07
6.	Book	Criminology in Next Generations pp.55-75 (Collaboration) 2020/02
7.	Book	The Law, Psychology and Social Welfare of Family pp.168-172 (Collaboration) 2019/10
8.	Book	The Rissho International Journal of Academic Research in Culture and Society 2: The Academic Canon of Arts and Humanities, and Science 2,pp.197-222 (Collaboration) 2019/03
9.	Book	Practice of Therapeutic Justice pp.425-443 (Collaboration) 2018/10

■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2025/11/21	The victim aspect of delinquent youths (Korean Youth Policy Society 2025)
2.	2025/10/11	Prison Education Program in Japan and USA (the 52nd Annual Conference of Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology)
3.	2025/01/30	Public Services by Prosecutors in JAPAN (International Conference on The Role of Public Prosecutors in Delivering Criminal Justice on a People-Centered Approach: International Perspectives)
4.	2024/05/31	The Current Drug Policy: How we can use Drugs for Controlling
5.	2023/09/23	(the 61st annual meeting of Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology)
6.	2023/06/04	The Some Issues about Prohibition of Marijuana Possession
7.	2022/09/09	The Big Challenge of Drug Policy in Thailand 2022 (Japanese Alcohol, Nicotine & Drug Addiction Conference)
8.	2022/07/06	The Penal Reform for People Who Use Drugs in JAPAN (The 36th Congress of International Academic of Law and Mental Health)
9.	2022/01/10	Problem Solving Court and Mitigation Specialist (Japanese Association of Social Problems)
10.	2021/11/13	(Japan Law and Economics Association, 19th Annual Conference)
11.	2021/06/18	The Japanese Trend of Penal Reform for Drug Offenders (12th Annual Conference of Asian Criminological Society)
12.	2021/06/18	What Can We Learn From Thailand (12th Annual Conference of Asian Criminological Society)
13.	2019/11/15	Penal Reform for Drug Users in Japan: Toward Japanese Penal Welfarism (75th Annual Meeting of American Society of Criminology)
14.	2019/08/10	The Drug Treatment Programs without Punishment
15.	2018/12/05	Towards Japanese Penal Welfarism (CSLS Visiting Scholars Speaker Series)
16.	2018/05/17	A New Movement in Japanese Drug Policy: Aiming for Policies that do not Depend on Punishment (12th International Society for the Study of Drug Policy)
17.	2017/09/15	Lowering the Age of Criminal Liability in Japanese Juvenile Systems (The 17th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology)
18.	2017/09/03	The Practice of Forensic Social Worker and Psychotherapist in Criminal Justice System: The Comments by Criminal Policy
19.	2017/06/30	Drug Policy From Punishment to Public Welfare (Japanese Society for Clinical Toxicology: The 39th Congress)
20.	2017/05/21	Drug Treatment Programs in Criminal Justice: Why and For Whom is it (Criminal Law Society of Japan: the 95th Annual Conference)
21.	2016/10/22	American Drug Policy: Drug Court or Decriminalization?
22.	2016/09/22	"Current Japanese Drug Policy: Toward the Establishment without Dependence on Punishment" (The 16th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology)
23.	2015/09/04	"Criminalized Welfare: Problematic issues of Partial Suspensions of Imprisonment" (The 15th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology)
24.	2015/08/06	"Partial Suspension of Imprisonment in Japan:Searching for what lies behind welfare models" (The 4th East Asian Law & Society Confernce)
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■ Activity in society

1.	2024/11～2024/11	A discussion with Dr. Yasuhiro Maruyama about the Japanese Criminal Justice System
2.	2023/11～2023/11	Appearing before the Upper House Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare
3.	2023/05～	Volunteer Probation Officer
4.	2022/07～	Talking about the Family of Climinals
5.	2022/06	Is It Possible the Punishment Stops Recidivisms?
6.	2022/05	What Can We Learn from Portuguese Drug Policy?
7.	2022/05	"What is the Drug Court?"
8.	2020/10～2020/10	The Compare of Japan and other countries as Drug Policy
9.	2019/09～2019/09	Japanese law and social mores still treat users of soft drugs severely
10.	2019/09	New Support Systems for Women of Drug Abusers in Prison
11.	2019/05～2019/05	Keep forcusing the defendants after sentencing
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■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

1.	2020/04～2023/03	A Comparative Study on Policy, Law and Enforcement of Narcotic Drug: Cross-National between Thailand and Japan (Key Word : )
2.	2018/05～2018/05	A New Movement in Japanese Drug Policy: Aiming for Policies that do not Depend on Punishment (Key Word : Drug Policy)

■ Academic background

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〔Doctorial Course〕, LAW, RYUKOKU University, Completed, Ph.D

■ Belonging society

1.	2004/10～	Japanese Association of Sociological Crimonology
2.	2020/10～	∟ Board Member
3.	2011/04～2017/10	∟ Editorial Committee
4.	2017/10～2020/10	∟ General Affairs Committee
5.	2006/05～	Criminal Law Society of JAPAN
6.	2010/08～	Japanese Society of Law and Forensic Social Services
7.	2021/09～	∟ Council Member
8.	2013/04～	∟ Editorial Committee
9.	2024/09	∟ Vice President
10.	2018/09～	American Society of Criminology