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Hiroshi Fukurai

Hiroshi Fukurai   
Hiroshi Fukurai
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  hfukurai@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-2971 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message
    Office:  College 8, 337
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Tues and Thurs 2-4; and by appt
    Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~hfukurai/

Courses Taught 
SOCY-128I - Race & Criminal Justice/LGST 128I
SOCY-204 - Methods of Quantitative Analysis
SOCY-257 - Colonialism, International law

Research Focus 
Law, Jury, Crime, and Race:
American Jury, Civic Legal Participation and Representation, Racial Inequlity, Sociology of Law, White Collar Crimes, Law and Politics in Japan and East Asia.

Advanced Quantitative Methods:
Covariance and Moment Structural Analysis

Education History 
Certificate in Metallurgical Engineering, National College of Technology, Miyagi, Japan
B.A., California State University, Fullerton
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Selected Publications 
Books:
Race in the Jury Box: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection , 2003, SUNY Press (with Richard Krooth).

Anatomy of the McMartin Child Molestation Case. 2001, University Press of America (with Edgar W. Butler, Jo-Ellan Huebner-Dimitrius, Richard Krooth).

Race and the Jury: Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice. 1993, Plenum Publishing Corporation (with Edgar W. Butler and Richard Krooth).

Common Destiny: Japan and the United States in the Global Age. 1990, McFarland & Company, Inc. (with Richard Krooth).

Articles:
"Embracing affirmative jury selection for racial fairness," Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The Case of African Americans ," 2003, (ed. Marvin D. Free), Westport, Connecticut,: Praeger, pp. 239-253.

"Critical evaluations of Hispanic participation in the Grand jury: Key-man selection, jurymandering, language, and representative quotas," Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy ," 2002, 5:7-39.

"Identity, cultural adaptation, and accommodation of a Japanese family living in the United States," Nurturing Success: Successful Women of Color and Their Daughters ," 2000, (ed. by Essie E. Lee), Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, pp. 150-156.

"Where did Hispanic jurors go? Copmuter graphics and statistical analysis of Hispanic participation in grand juries in Califorina," 2000, Western Criminology Review , vol. 2, n. 2.

"Social Deconstruction of Race and Affirmative Action in Jury Selection," La Raza Law Journal , 1999, 11:17-68.

"Rethinking the representative jury requirement: Jury representativeness and cross-sectional participation from the beginning to the end of the jury selection process," 1999, International Journal of Applied and Comparative Criminal Justice , 23: 55-90.

"Is O.J. Simpson Verdict an Example of Jury Nullification? Jury Verdicts, Legal Concepts, and Jury Performance in a Racially Sensitive Criminal Case," International Journal of Applied and Comparative Criminal Justice , 1998, 22:185-210.

"A Quota Jury: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection," Journal of Criminal Justice , 1997, 25:477-500.

"Affirmative Action in Jury Selection: Racially Representative Juries, Racial Quotas, and Affirmative Juries of the Hennepin Model and the Jury De Medietate Linguae," Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law , (with Darryl Davies) 1997, 4:645-681.

"The ironies of Affirmative Action: UC Students' Views on Fallacies and Problems of Affirmative Action," California Sociologists , (with eight UCSC undergraduate students) 1997, 24:71-88.

"Race, Social Class, Jury Participation: New Dimensions for Evaluating Discrimination in Jury Service and Jury Selection," Journal of Criminal Justice , 1996, 24:71-88.

"Sociologists in Action: The McMartin Sexual Abuse Case, Litigation, Justice, and Mass Hysteria," American Sociologist , (with Edgar W. Butler, and R. Krooth), 1995, 25: 45-72.

"Sources of Racial Disenfranchisement in the Jury and Jury Selection System," National Black Law Journal , 1995, 13(3): 238-275.

"The Rodney King Beating Verdicts." In M. Baldassare, ed., The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future . Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, pp. 73-102.

"Management of American University Branch Campuses in Japan: Socio-cultural Problems Faced by Texas A&M University in the Rural Japanese Town," Higher Educational Management Journal , 1994, Vol.6, No.2, pp.227-240.