Crime, punishment, and policing in China
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Crime, punishment, and policing in China
(Asia/Pacific/perspectives)
Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, c2005
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First paperback edition 2007"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Crime long has been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, leading the regime to make law and order as central a priority as economic growth and the promise of prosperity. This groundbreaking study offers the first comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Chinese crime, policing, and punishment. A multidisciplinary group of leading scholars draw on a rich body of empirical data and rare archival research to illuminate seldom-explored theoretical dimensions of legal ideology and reform as well as the linkages between crime and control to broader themes of law, modernization, and development. The authors balance comparative perspectives with an understanding of China's unique historical and cultural experience. This context is critical, the authors argue, as crime and control are at the root of modernity and how it is defined. In many ways the PRC is reliving the experiences of other industrializing countries, yet at the same time the practices of China's police and prison system also are painted with thick layers of historical memory.
Order has become increasingly important in legitimizing the Chinese regime, but its practices and ideas of policing are often missing from our picture of Chinese social and political development. This important book's discussion of the paradoxes of policing and the problems of order bridges that gap and demystifies developments in China. All those interested in modern and contemporary Chinese politics, law, and society, as well as in comparative criminology and law, will find this work an invaluable resource.
Contributions by: Borge Bakken, Frank Dikoetter, Michael Dutton, James D. Seymour, Murray Scot Tanner, and Xu Zhangrun.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Crime, Control, and Modernity in China
Part I: Recent Dreams, Present Trends, and Future Scenarios
Chapter 1: Penology and Reformation in Modern China
Chapter 2: Comparative Perspectives on Crime in China
Part II: Prison and Punishment in Transition
Chapter 3: A Question of Difference: The Theory and Practice of the Chinese Prison
Chapter 4: Sizing Up China's Prisons
Part III: Policing "Market Socialism"
Chapter 5: Campaign-Style Policing in China and Its Critics
Chapter 6: Toward a Government of the Contract: Policing in the Era of Reform
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