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Punishment in Contemporary China

Its Evolution, Development and Change
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Punishment in Contemporary China traces the evolution of penal practices across three distinct eras: the Maoist period, the reform years, and the post-reform age. It offers a deep analysis of how punishment is shaped by socio-cultural, political and economic factors within China's dynamic historical context. Drawing on law reform, penal policy, and crime prevention, the book presents China's criminal justice system as a complex social and legal framework.
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This work is ideal for scholars and students of Chinese criminal law, comparative criminology, and sociology interested in understanding the unique penal and policing systems of contemporary China.

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This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment, through 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 social, political and economic processes and arrangements across different historical periods.

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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 in existing research by developing a distinctive theoretical framework for China’s penality, exploring it as a separate and complex legal-social system. The book observes 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 systems, as well as to law academics, criminologists, and sociologists whose research interests lie in the fields of comparative criminology and criminal justice.

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South

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  • Punishment in Contemporary China
    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...
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ISBN: 9781138485839

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 July 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 172

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.

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