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HIRAI Hideyuki

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology

Academic background
1.	2007/03 Degree Acquisition	│ The University of Tokyo Ph. D. (Education)
2.	1998/04～2002/03	Faculty of Education │ The University of Tokyo

Business career
1.	2023/04 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Social Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2019/04 ～ 2020/03	Part-time Lecturer │ │ Kyushu University
3.	2018/04 ～ 2023/03	Associate Professor │ │ Shitennoji University
4.	2014/04 ～ 2018/03	Associate Professor │ The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences │ Shitennoji University
5.	2012/04 ～ 2014/03	Visiting Researcher │ The Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences │ Nihon University
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Research activities
1.		International Sociological Association
2.		THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
3.		JAPANESE ASSOSIATION OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
4.		JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY

Present specialized field
Keyword：critical criminology,abolitionism,Zemiology,social harm approach,social control,fieldwork,governmentality,drug,discipline,neoliberalism,self-help group

Papers
1.	2020/10	Community as an Actor of Governing : Its Genealogy and an Exploratory Approach toward "Socialization of Government" │ ,pp.57-78
2.	2019/09	Recent Developments in Narrative Criminology : Normative Commitment, Narrative Intervention, and Narrative Agonism │ ,pp.175-198
3.	2017/09	Are DARCs really willing to become "subcontract facilities" of the Japanese criminal justice system? : An initial analysis on relationships between DARCs and the "Partial Suspension of Execution of the Sentence" │ ,pp.67-81
4.	2017/09	How to build an analytical framework of empirical study on "-ization" of drug use : reconsidering sociological scholarship on "medicalization" │ ,pp.269-294
5.	2016/09	A Historical Sociological Study on Drug Use and Its Treatment in the 1970s:Understanding Japan's Case of ostponement" and "Sustentation" │ ,pp.95-122
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2018/07	Judicialization or De-Judicialization?: The Rise of Network-Based Governance of the Drug Problems in Contemporary Japan
2.	2016/06	In the Name of Protecting Prisoners’ Rights: Understanding Prisoners’ Experience of Responsibilization and Bulimic Empowerment in Contemporary Japan

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2015/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Theoretical and empirical study on desistance from crime/delinquency │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
2.	2015/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	A study on historical formation of the rehabilitative climate in juvenile training schools │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
3.	2013/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	A Sociological Study on Educational Support for Rehabilitation from Crime │ Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
4.	2013/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	A Micro-sociological Study of "Rehabilitation" of Drug Addicts │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
5.	2012/04/01 ～ 2015/03/31	Pedagogical Studies on the Formation and Development of "Correctional Culture" in Juvenile Training Schools │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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