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Cunliffe, E. and Vinuesa, C.G. and Rego, R. and San Roque, M. and Edmond, G. and Gans, J. and Sato, Mai and Burridge, K. and Cordner, S. (2024) AAFS (Victorian branch) Symposium: Science and medicine in the courts—Learning from the wrongful conviction of Kathleen Folbigg. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences , pp. 1-22. ISSN 0045-0618.

Alexander, Chris and Sato, Mai and Zanghellini, Aleardo (2023) State-enabled killing of same-sex-attracted people: a legal pluralist account. Law & Social Inquiry 48 (3), pp. 719-747. ISSN 0897-6546.

Williamson, H. and Sato, Mai and Dioso-Villa, R. (2023) Wrongful convictions and erroneous acquittals: applying Packer’s Model to examine public perceptions of judicial errors in Australia. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 67 (8), pp. 783-802. ISSN 0306-624X.

Domingo-Cabarrubias, L. and Woodlock, D. and Alexander, C. and Sato, Mai and Grant, G. and Weinberg, J. (2023) The role of technology in improving access to justice for victims of family violence: challenges and opportunities. Law, Technology and Humans 5 (1), pp. 1-10. ISSN 2652-4074.

Finnane, M. and Sato, Mai and Trevaskes, S. (2022) Death penalty politics: the fragility of abolition in Asia and the Pacific. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 11 (3), ISSN 2202-8005.

Sato, Mai (2022) Politics of international advocacy against the death penalty: governments as anti–death penalty crusaders. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 11 (3), pp. 1-11. ISSN 2202-7998.

Alexander, C. and Sato, Mai (2022) State complicity in the extralegal killing of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan: a case for brutalisation. Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity 10 (1), pp. 30-52. ISSN 2203-3114.

Zanghellini, A. and Sato, Mai (2021) A critical recuperation of Watsuji’s Rinrigaku. Philosophia 49 (3), pp. 1289-1307. ISSN 0048-3893.

Sato, Mai and Hoyle, C. and Speechley, N.-E. (2017) Wrongful convictions of refugees and asylum seekers by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Criminal Law Review 2 , pp. 106-122. ISSN 0011-135X.

Sato, Mai (2016) 世論という神話―望むのは「死刑」ですか？. 世界 (879), pp. 183-191. ISSN 0582-4532.

Sato, Mai and Haverkamp, R. and Hough, Mike (2016) Trust in the German police. European Police Science and Research Bulletin , pp. 83-90. ISSN 2443-7883.

Sato, Mai and Hough, Mike (2016) Disrupting the market for trafficking of Rhino horn and ivory. Journal of Trafficking, Organised Crime and Security 2 (1), ISSN 2374-118X.

Sato, Mai (2015) 日本の世論は死刑を支持しているのか. 法律時報 1082 , pp. 63-71. ISSN 0387-3420.

Sato, Mai and Hough, Mike (2015) Information and punitiveness: trial reconstruction in Ireland. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 1 (2), pp. 90-98. ISSN 2056-3841.

Sato, Mai (2014) Public attitudes to wrongful conviction in death penalty cases. Ryukoku Corrections and Rehabilitation Center Journal (4), pp. 71-74. ISSN 2186-8018.

Sato, Mai (2012) Auf dem Prüfstein: Die Umgangsweise der japanischen Regierung mit der Todesstrafe. Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform 95 (5), pp. 363-377. ISSN 0026-9301.

Ellis, T. and Lewis, C. and Sato, Mai (2011) The Japanese probation service: a third sector template? Probation Journal 58 (4), pp. 333-344. ISSN 0264-5505.

Sato, Mai (2007) 司法と立法は世論とどのように向き合うべきか. 犯罪と非行 152 , pp. 156-178. ISSN 0385-6518.

Book Review

Sato, Mai (2020) Last Chance for Life: Clemency in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases by Daniel Pascoe. [Book Review]

Sato, Mai (2017) Silvia Croydon, The politics of police detention in Japan: consensus of convenience. [Book Review]

Book Section

Sato, Mai (2019) Reframing the debate on attitudes towards the death penalty. In: Steiker, C. and Steiker, J. (eds.) Comparative Capital Punishment. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 301-318. ISBN 9781786433244.

Sato, Mai (2018) From measuring support for the death penalty to justifying its retention: Japanese public opinion surveys on crime and punishment, 1956–2014. In: Liu, J. and Miyazawa, S. (eds.) Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan. Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. Springer, pp. 237-252. ISBN 9783319693583.

Sato, Mai (2017) Police legitimacy and public cooperation: is Japan an outlier in the procedural justice model? In: Oberwittler, D. and Roché, S. (eds.) Police-Citizen Relations Across the World: Comparing sources and contexts of trust and legitimacy. Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice. Routledge. ISBN 9780367227692.

Sato, Mai (2015) Vox populi, vox dei? A closer look at the ‘public opinion’ argument for retention. In: Šimonovic, I. (ed.) Moving away from the death penalty: arguments, trends and perspectives. United Nations, pp. 250-259. ISBN 9789211542158.

Hough, Mike and Sato, Mai (2014) Report on compliance with the law: how normative and instrumental compliance interact. In: Maffei, S. and Markopoulou, L. (eds.) FIDUCIA: New European Crimes and Trust-Based Policy. FIDUCIA, pp. 1-20.

Bacon, P. and Sato, Mai (2014) What role for nuclear power in Japan after Fukushima? A human security perspective. In: Bacon, P. and Hobson, C. (eds.) Human Security and Japan's Triple Disaster Responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis. Routledge Humanitarian Studies. Routledge, pp. 160-179. ISBN 9781138013131.

Sato, Mai (2013) Challenging the Japanese government’s approach to the death penalty. In: Hood, R. and Deva, S. (eds.) Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia. Oxford University Press, pp. 205-218. ISBN 9780199685776.

Kury, H. and Sato, Mai (2013) Bewährungshilfe – Die Rolle der Freiwilligen Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Japan. In: Boers, K. and Feltes, T. and Kinzig, J. and Sherman, W.L. and Streng, F. and Trüg, G. (eds.) Kriminologie - Kriminalpolitik - Strafrecht: Festschrift für Hans-Jürgen Kerner zum 70. Geburtstag. Mohr Siebeck, pp. 637-650. ISBN 9783161522161.

Kury, H. and Sato, Mai (2013) Volunteers in the probation service: a comparison between Germany and Japan. In: Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Understanding Penal Practice. Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice. Routledge, pp. 92-108. ISBN 9780415635813.

Sato, Mai and Hough, Mike (2013) Report on an empirical assessment of fear of crime & punitive sentiment across Europe. In: Maffei, S. and Markopoulou, L. (eds.) FIIDUCIA: New European Crimes and Trust-Based Policy. FIDUCIA, pp. 179-218.

Sato, Mai and Hough, Mike (2011) Introduction. In: Hough, Mike and Sato, Mai (eds.) Trust in justice: why it is important for criminal policy, and how it can be measured. Helsinki, Finland: HEUNI, pp. 6-9. ISBN 9789525333848.

Hough, Mike and Sato, Mai (2011) Why measure trust in justice. In: Hough, Mike and Sato, Mai (eds.) Trust in justice: why it is important for criminal policy, and how it can be measured. Helsinki, Finland: HEUNI, pp. 10-17. ISBN 9789525333848.

Sato, Mai and Kimura, M. and Honjo, T. (2011) 死刑をめぐる輿論と世論：審議型意識調査の結果から. In: Fukui, A. (ed.) 死刑と向きあう裁判員のために. 現代人文社. ISBN 9784877984793.

Sato, Mai (2010) 裁判員は死刑判決を適切に行えるか: 死刑に対する態度と知識. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) 季刊 刑事弁護. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 121-125. ISBN 9784877984410.

Sato, Mai (2007) Public opinion and the death penalty in Japan. In: Hodgkinson, P. and Gyllensten, L. (eds.) Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, Occasional Papers. London, UK: Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, University of Westminster, pp. 101-139.

Monograph

Sato, Mai (2025) Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. A/HRC/58/62. Project Report. United Nations.

Sato, Mai (2024) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mai Sato - Vision and priorities of the mandate. Project Report. United Nations.

Alexander, C. and Sato, Mai (2024) Abolishing the death penalty through constitutional challenge. Project Report. Eleos Justice.

Kowal, S. and Walker, S. and Ashraf, Z. and Sato, Mai (2022) A deadline distraction: why the death penalty is not the answer to rape in South Asia. Project Report. Monash University.

Woodlock, D. and Alexander, C. and Domingo-Cabarrubias, L. and Zong, C. and Cao, K. and Weinburg, J. and Grant, G. and Sato, Mai (2022) Legal tech for justice - Enhancing access to justice in family violence legal services. Report submitted to the Victorian Government, Australia. Technical Report. Monash University.

Alexander, C. and Sato, Mai and Hosen, N. and McLaren, J. (2021) Killing in the name of God: state-sanctioned violation of religious freedom. Project Report. Monash University.

Sato, Mai and Alexander, C. (2021) State-sanctioned killing of sexual minorities: looking beyond the death penalty. Project Report. Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Sato, Mai (2018) 12 years without an execution: is Zimbabwe ready for abolition? Project Report. The Death Penalty Project.

Sato, Mai and Bacon, P. (2015) Public opinion myth: why Japan retains the death penalty. Project Report. The Death Penalty Project.

Sato, Mai and Hough, Mike (2015) Measurement of trust & satisfaction in Police and Gendarmerie based on International Instruments: findings from a national opinion poll in Turkey. Project Report. The United Nations, Ankara, Turkey.

Brandon, G. and Sato, Mai and Tagusari, M. and Lehrfreund, S. and Jabbar, P. (2014) The inevitability of error: the administration of justice in death penalty cases. Project Report. The Death Penalty Project.

Sato, Mai and Johnson, D. and Tagusari, M. and Lehrfreund, S. and Jabbar, P. (2013) The death penalty in Japan: an international perspective. A report on Japan’s legal obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and an assessment of public attitudes to capital punishment. Project Report. The Death Penalty Project, London, UK.

Hough, Mike and Sato, Mai (2011) Trust in justice: why it is important for criminal policy, and how it can be measured. Project Report. Euro-Justis Project, Helsinki, Finland.

Book

Sato, Mai and Babcock, S., eds. (2023) Silently silenced: state-sanctioned killing of women. Monash University and Cornell University.

Hoyle, C. and Sato, Mai (2019) Reasons to doubt: wrongful convictions and The Criminal Cases Review Commission. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198794578.

Sato, Mai (2014) The death penalty in Japan: will the public tolerate abolition? Springer. ISBN 9783658006778.

Other

Sato, Mai (2023) Singapore’s death penalty for drug trafficking: what the research says and doesn’t. Academia SG.