Integrating Legal Frameworks: Customary Law, Statutory Law, and Spousal Property Rights in Ghana (2012) - 55 minutes. by Duke University School of Law, features a panel discussion of law students discussing their experiences working in Ghana and learning about the intersections of different legal systems.

Please answer all Discussion Questions:

1. What are the most important similarities and differences between the five world legal systems?

2. What do you think the Aztec legal system might be like today if it had not been subject to colonization? How does colonization shape legal systems?

3. How would you go about determining if a country protects the rule of law?

4. What are some of the ways in which citizenship rules vary around the world? What do you think the consequences of these variations are?

5. Countries with Low Crime Rates:

Japan:

Low levels of economic stress

Small proportion of young males within the population

Criminal justice system that delivers high certainty of guilt

and punishment

Small fixed neighborhood police posts calledkobanandtrusting attitude towards police

2000 - lowest reported victimization rate at 0.4% per 100

Complex forms of social control (giri, uchi,andyoso)

Why Japan's conviction rate is 99% | The Economist (4:31)

In Japan, crime rates are low and the state incarcerates far fewer people than in other rich countries. But when people are accused of a crime they are almost always convicted.

Life Inside Japanese Toughest Prison (1:00:12)

What Is Prison Like In Japan? Educational documenatry on the regimented life inside a Japanese prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLeM1BH1fNALinks to an external site.

Twilight Of The Yakuza (Organised Crime Documentary) - Real Stories (2:06:49)

The Yakuza, Japan's organised crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are ageing and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialised world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzu2ccxwvr8Links to an external site.

Questions:

- Explain some factors that influence Japan's low crime rate.

- Share your opinion about to what extent can we rely on crime data from Japan?

Saudi Arabia:

Wahhabism and literal interpretation of the Koran

Emphasis on self-control, conformity, and strong sense ofmorality

Predominant Muslim population encouraging unity by faith inIslam

Strong social support of rigid family structures

High public opinion of severe punishment towards criminalconduct

Resolute implementation of Sharia law and internalization ofsinfulness

Saudi Arabia Uncovered(50:15)

Uncovered Saudi Arabia secrets

Saudi Arabia Uncovered ITV YouTube 720pLinks to an external site.

Questions:

- What factors might contribute to the very low crime rates in Saudi Arabia?

- Share your opinion about to what extent can we rely on crime data from Saudi Arabia?

United States:

- Please list / share videos, articles the crime facts about the United States.

- What can be learned from Comparing International Data?What are the benefits of comparing international data?

-How Does the U.S. Compare Internationally?