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1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Roger Hood -- China's death penalty practice : working progress, struggle, and challenges within the global abolition movement / Bin Liang -- Criminal justice system and the death penalty / Hong Lu, Yudu Li, and Charlotte Hu -- Crimes of counterrevolution and politicized use of the death penalty during the Mao Era / Ning Zhang -- China's death penalty in a state-power-based society / Yunhai Wang -- From "killing many" to "killing fewer" / Susan Trevaskes -- Abolitionist and retentionist debate / Zhigang Yu (translated by Charlotte Hu) -- Guiding cases for China's death penalty : analysis and reflection / Xingliang Chen (translated by Charlotte Hu) -- Death penalty after the restoration of centralized review : an empirical study of capital sentencing / Moulin Xiong -- Public opinion and the death penalty / Shanhe Jiang -- Between deference and defiance : courts and penal populism in Chinese capital cases / Hualing fu -- Chinese capital punishment in comparative perspective / David T. Johnson and Michelle Miao -- China's death penalty in the twenty-first century / Bin Liang and Hong Lu. |
| Summary |
China currently leads the world in death sentences and executions, making it a primary target for the global abolition movement. While the results have been subtle, anti-death penalty advocates are beginning to influence Chinese attitudes toward the practice, as well as law. Conducting an interdisciplinary and comparative study of China's death penalty as the country heads toward reform, this book explains what it took to advance reforms to limit death sentences and executions, while identifying the challenges that prevent more extensive progress. Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection follows changes in the theory and policy of China's death penalty from the Mao era (1949-1979) through the Deng era (1980-1997) up to the present day. Using empirical data, such as capital offender and offense profiles, temporal and regional variations in capital punishment, and the impact of social media on public opinion and reform, contributors relay both the particular character of China's death penalty practices and the incremental changes that indicate reform. They then compare the Chinese experience to other countries throughout Asia and the world, showing how change can be implemented even within a non-democratic and rigid political system, but also the dangers of pushing policies that society may not be ready to embrace. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- China.
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Capital punishment. |
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China. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- China.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Liang, Bin, 1972- editor.
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Lu, Hong, 1966- editor.
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Hood, Roger, 1936- writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Death penalty in China (Liang and Lu)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Death penalty in China. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 9780231170062 (DLC) 2015020786 (OCoLC)910993644 |
| ISBN |
9780231540810 electronic book |
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0231540817 electronic book |
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9780231170079 |
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9780231170062 |
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0231170068 |
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0231170076 |
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9780231170079 |
| Music No. |
EB00640461 Recorded Books |
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