(Source: Routledge)
Routledge has
published a book on the history and role of punishment in Communist China.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Punishment in
contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades
or so. This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment
in the Maoist (1949-1977), reform (1978-2001) and post-reform eras (2002-) of
China to understand the shaping and transformation of punishment within the
context of a range of socio-cultural changes across different historical
periods.
It aims to fill
the gap of existing research by developing a distinctive theoretical framework
for the China’s penality, exploring it as a separate and complex legal-social
system to observe the impact social foundations, political-economic genesis,
cultural significance and meanings have exerted on penal form, discourse and
force in contemporary China. It sheds light on the sociology of punishment in
this socialist Party-state by investigating law reform, penal policy, social
control, crime prevention and sentencing as interconnected elements in the
criminal justice and penal system.
This book will
be of great interest to those who study Chinese criminal law, penal and
policing system, as well as to law academics, criminologists and sociologists
whose research interests lie in the fields of comparative criminology and
criminal justice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Enshen Li is a lecturer at the TC Beirne
School of Law, The University of Queensland. His research interests lie in the
field of comparative criminal justice, theoretical criminology, socio-legal
studies of punishment and society. Dr Enshen Li specializes in the Chinese
criminal justice and penal system and their implications for culture and
society.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Punishment and Society in
China
2. Economic Modernization and Punishment:
Strike-Hard Campaigns, Administrative Detention and the Underclass Population
3. Populism and Punishment: Populist Penality
with Chinese Characteristics
4. The Emergence of Lenient Justice: New
Penal Policy in Post-reform China
5. Community Justice in Urban China: Civic
Participation, Rehabilitative Ethos and Social Stability
6. Community Corrections and Crime
Prevention: Restorativeness v Managerialism
7. Conclusion
Index
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