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Criminal Justice in Post-Mao China

Author : Shao-Chuan Leng
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873959490
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice in Post-Mao China written by Shao-Chuan Leng and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-Mao commitment to modernization, coupled with a general revulsion against the lawlessness of the Cultural Revolution, has led to a significant law reform movement in the People's Republic of China. China's current leadership seeks to restore order and morale, to attract domestic support and external assistance for its modernization program, and to provide a secure, orderly environment for economic development. It has taken a number of steps to strengthen its laws and judicial system, among which are the PRC's first substantive and procedural criminal codes. This is the first book-length study of the most important area of Chinese law--the development, organization, and functioning of the criminal justice system in China today. It examines both the formal aspects of the criminal justice system--such as the court, the procuracy, lawyers, and criminal procedure--and the extrajudicial organs and sanctions that play important roles in the Chinese system. Based on published Chinese materials and personal interviews, the book is essential reading for persons interested in human rights and laws in China, as well as for those concerned with China's political system and economic development. The inclusion of selected documents and an extensive bibliography further enhance the value of the book.

Criminal Justice in China

Author : Klaus Mu_hlhahn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674054332
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice in China written by Klaus Mu_hlhahn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Muhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. In late imperial China, flogging, tattooing, torture, and servitude were routine punishments. Sentences, including executions, were generally carried out in public. After 1905, in a drive to build a strong state and curtail pressure from the West, Chinese officials initiated major legal reforms. Physical punishments were replaced by fines and imprisonment. Capital punishment, though removed from the public sphere, remained in force for the worst crimes. Trials no longer relied on confessions obtained through torture but were instead held in open court and based on evidence. Prison reform became the centerpiece of an ambitious social-improvement program. After 1949, the Chinese communists developed their own definitions of criminality and new forms of punishment. People's tribunals were convened before large crowds, which often participated in the proceedings. At the center of the socialist system was reform through labor, and thousands of camps administered prison sentences. Eventually, the communist leadership used the camps to detain anyone who offended against the new society, and the crime of counterrevolution was born. Muhlhahn reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.

Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China

Author : Susan Trevaskes
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119884
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China written by Susan Trevaskes and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers 'law on display' in Chinese courts. As the first sustained study of criminal trials, rallies, and campaigns in Chinese courts, it offers an account of how law and punishment is constructed and represented both in practice and in rhetoric.

The Construction of Guilt in China

Author : Yu Mou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509913041
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Guilt in China written by Yu Mou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from the author's own empirical data obtained from systematic observation of the daily routines within Chinese criminal justice institutions, this ground-breaking book examines the functional deficiency of the criminal justice system in preventing innocent individuals from being wrongly accused and convicted. Set within a broad socio-legal context, it outlines the strategic interrelationships between key legal actors, the deep-seated legal culture embedded in practice, the deficiency of integrity of the system and the structural injustices that follow. The author traces criminal case files in the criminal process – how they are constructed, scrutinised and used to dispose of cases and convict defendants in lieu of witnesses' oral testimony. This book illustrates that the Chinese criminal justice system as a state apparatus of social control has been framed through performance indicators, bureaucratic management and the central value of collectivism in such a way as to maintain the stability of the authoritarian power. The Construction of Guilt in China will appeal to academics, researchers, policy advisers and practitioners working in the areas of criminal law, comparative criminal justice, criminology and Chinese studies. Winner of the 2020 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

Procedural Justice and the Fair Trial in Contemporary Chinese Criminal Justice

Author : Elisa Nesossi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004386386
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Procedural Justice and the Fair Trial in Contemporary Chinese Criminal Justice written by Elisa Nesossi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review examines the literature on procedural justice and the fair trial over the past two decades in the People’s Republic of China. Part 1 gives a wide-angle view of the key political events and developments that have shaped the experience of procedural justice and the fair trial in contemporary China. It provides a storyline that explains the political environment in which these concepts have developed over time. Part 2 examines how scholars understand the legal structures of the criminal process in relation to China’s political culture. Part 3 presents scholarly views on three enduring problems relating to the fair trial: a presumption of innocence, interrogational torture, and the role of lawyers in the criminal trial process. Procedural justice is a particularly pertinent issue today in China, because Xi Jinping’s yifa zhiguo 依法治国 (governing the nation in accordance with the law) governance platform seeks to embed a greater appreciation for procedural justice in criminal justice decision-making, to correct a politico-legal tradition overwhelmingly focused on substantive justice. Overall, the literature reviewed in this article points to the serious limitations in overcoming the politico-legal barriers to justice reforms that remain intact in the system, despite nearly four decades of constant reform.

China and the International Criminal Court

Author : Dan Zhu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811073740
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book China and the International Criminal Court written by Dan Zhu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the evolving relationship between China and the International Criminal Court (ICC). It examines the substantive issues that have restricted China’s engagement with the ICC to date, and provides a comprehensive assessment of whether these Chinese concerns still constitute a significant impediment to China’s accession to the ICC in the years to come. The book places the China-ICC relationship within the wider context of China’s interactions with international judicial bodies, and uses the ICC as an example to reflect China’s engagement with international institutions and global governance in general. It seeks to offer a thought-provoking resource to international law and international relations scholars, legal practitioners, government legal advisers, and policy-makers about the nature, scope, and consequences of the relationship between China and the ICC, as well as its impact on both global governance and order. This book is the first of its kind to explore China’s engagement with the ICC primarily from a legal perspective.

Justice

Author : Flora Sapio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108121322
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Justice written by Flora Sapio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims about a pursuit of justice weave through all periods of China's modern history. But what do authorities mean when they refer to 'justice' and do Chinese citizens interpret justice in the same way as their leaders? This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in Chinese polity and society, and how some conceptions of justice have been rendered more powerful and legitimate than others. This book's focus on 'how' justice works incorporates a concern about the processes that lead to the making, un-making and re-making of distinct conceptions of justice. Investigating the processes and frameworks through which certain ideas about justice have come to the political and social forefront in China today, this innovative work explains how these ideas are articulated through spoken performances and written expression by both the party-state and its citizenry.

Back from the Dead

Author : He Jiahong
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824856619
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Back from the Dead written by He Jiahong and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's party-run courts have one of the highest conviction rates in the world, with forced confessions remaining a central feature. Despite recent prohibitions on evidence obtained through coercion or torture, forced confessions continue to undermine the Chinese judicial system. Recounting some harrowing cases of wrongful conviction, acclaimed legal scholar and novelist He Jiahong analyzes many problems in China's justice system. In one such case, Teng Xingshan was convicted in 1988 and later executed for murdering his mistress, but almost six years later it was discovered that the supposed victim, Shi Xiaorong, was still alive. In 2005, Teng's children submitted a complaint to the Hunan High People's Court, which then issued a revised judgment. In another case, She Xianglin was convicted of murdering his wife in 1994 and was sentenced to death, but this sentence was later commuted to fifteen years' imprisonment. In 2005, She's wife, presumed dead for over eleven years, "returned to life"; She was released from prison two weeks later, retried and found not guilty. With riveting examples, the author surveys the organization and procedure of criminal investigation, the lawyering system for criminal defense, the public prosecution system, trial proceedings, as well as criminal punishments and appeals. In doing so, He highlights the frequent causes of wrongful convictions: investigators working from forced confessions to evidence; improperly tight deadlines for solving criminal cases; prejudicial collection of evidence; misinterpretation of scientific evidence; continued use of torture to extract confessions; bowing to public opinion; nominal checks among the police, prosecutors and the courts; the dysfunction of courtroom trials; unlawfully extended custody with tunnel vision; and reduced sentencing in cases of doubt. The author also provides updated information about recent changes and reforms as well as the many continuing challenges of the criminal justice system in China.

Delivering Justice in Qing China

Author : Linxia Liang
Publisher : British Academy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Delivering Justice in Qing China written by Linxia Liang and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed analysis of the Qing law codes and of one hundred nineteenth-century case records from Baodi county challenges the view that the traditional Chinese legal system was inappropriate for civil cases and that mediation was preferred instead.

The Limits of the Rule of Law in China

Author : Karen G. Turner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803894
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of the Rule of Law in China written by Karen G. Turner and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Limits of the Rule of Law in China, fourteen authors from different academic disciplines reflect on questions that have troubled Chinese and Western scholars of jurisprudence since classical times. Using data from the early 19th century through the contemporary period, they analyze how tension between formal laws and discretionary judgment is discussed and manifested in the Chinese context. The contributions cover a wide range of topics, from interpreting the rationale for and legacy of Qing practices of collective punishment, confession at trial, and bureaucratic supervision to assessing the political and cultural forces that continue to limit the authority of formal legal institutions in the People’s Republic of China.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology

Author : Liqun Cao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135021457
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology written by Liqun Cao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world’s second largest economy, China has made great progress in developing criminology. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology aims to be a key reference point to summarize the large body of literature in both Chinese and English about various aspects of crime and its control in China for international scholars with an interest in the development of criminological research on and in the Greater China region, and for everyone with a broad interest in international criminology. The editors of the handbook have selected authoritative contributors recognized for their research and scholarship on China, Hong Kong Macao, and Taiwan. This handbook consists of five sections: An account of the development of criminology as an academic discipline in modern China, as well as some of the unique theories, strategies, or philosophies of crime control that have emerged, An analysis of the criminal justice system in China, including the police, the courts, corrections, juvenile justice and the death penalty, An exploration of the issues and problems in conducting research in China, Reflections on the nature of crime and criminality in China, including drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, corruption, floating population, domestic violence, and white-collar crime, An account of crime and criminal justice in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. The book presents a coherent and comprehensive collection of essays on current research and theory in criminology, crime and justice in China and Greater China, and the Editors’ Introduction and Conclusion provide further contextualisation of the Handbook’s key themes.

The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China

Author : Dr Yuwen Li
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472436075
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China written by Dr Yuwen Li and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decades in China. As the role of courts in society has increased so too has the amount of public complaints about the judiciary. At the same time, political control over the judiciary has retained its tight-grip. The shortcomings of the contemporary system, such as institutional deficiencies, shocking cases of injustice and cases of serious judicial corruption, are deemed quite appalling by an international audience. Using a combination of traditional modes of legal analysis, case studies, and empirical research, this study reflects upon the complex progress that China has made, and continues to make, towards the modernisation of its judicial system. Li offers a better understanding on how the judicial system has transformed and what challenges lay ahead for further enhancement. This book is unique in providing both the breadth of coverage and yet the substantive details of the most fundamental as well as controversial subjects concerning the operation of the courts in China.

A Realist Perspective on China and the International Criminal Court

Author : XIAO Jingren
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
ISBN 13 : 8293081732
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Realist Perspective on China and the International Criminal Court written by XIAO Jingren and published by Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Policing China

Author : Suzanne E. Scoggins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501755609
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Policing China written by Suzanne E. Scoggins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Policing China, Suzanne E. Scoggins delves into the paradox of China's self-projection of a strong security state while having a weak police bureaucracy. Assessing the problems of resources, enforcement, and oversight that beset the police, outside of cracking down on political protests, Scoggins finds that the central government and the Ministry of Public Security have prioritized "stability maintenance" (weiwen) to the detriment of nearly every aspect of policing. The result, she argues, is a hollowed out and ineffective police force that struggles to deal with everyday crime. Using interviews with police officers up and down the hierarchy, as well as station data, news reports, and social media postings, Scoggins probes the challenges faced by ground-level officers and their superiors at the Ministry of Public Security as they attempt to do their jobs in the face of funding limitations, reform challenges, and structural issues. Policing China concludes that despite the social control exerted by China's powerful bureaucracies, security failures at the street level have undermined Chinese citizens' trust in the legitimacy of the police and the capabilities of the state.

Dispute Resolution in the People’s Republic of China

Author : Zhiqiong June Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900433128X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Dispute Resolution in the People’s Republic of China written by Zhiqiong June Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispute resolution reforms in China in the last decade or so have all centred around the strategy of establishing an integrated dispute resolution system as part of China’s modern governance system. This new integrated system, referred to as the ‘Mechanism for Pluralist Dispute Resolution (PDR)’ in China, serves as a dispute resolution system as well as a comprehensive social control mechanism. This book is the first academic attempt to explain the methods of civil and commercial dispute resolution in China from the perspective of PDR. It systematically and critically examines the development of China’s dispute resolution system, with each chapter analysing in detail the development and transformation of the different institutions, mechanisms and processes in their historical, politico-economic and comparative context.

A Question of Intent

Author : Jennifer M. Neighbors
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900433016X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Intent written by Jennifer M. Neighbors and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China, Jennifer M. Neighbors uses legal cases from the local, provincial and central levels to explore both the complexity with which Qing law addressed abstract concepts and the process of adoption, adaptation, and resistance as late imperial law gave way to criminal law of the Republican period. This study reveals a Chinese justice system, both before and after 1911, that defies assignment to binary categories of modern and pre-modern law that have influenced much of past scholarship.

Chinese Justice, the Fiction

Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739764
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Justice, the Fiction written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-length study of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars law and literature inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture.