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Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China
Author(s): Børge Bakken
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742535746
- ISBN-13: 9780742535749
Book Description
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: Børge Bakken, Frank Dikötter, Michael Dutton, James D. Seymour, Murray Scot Tanner, and Xu Zhangrun.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Of the spate of books on crime and law in China which have appeared in recent years, this edited volume is far and away the best. It combines wonderfully informed theoretical analyses of contemporary Chinese criminal justice with remarkable, well-grounded, empirical data about its day-to-day operation. A collection of essays by the leading academics in the field, it offers unmatched observation of, and insight into, the Chinese system. . . . The book does something long overdue in modern China studies, which is to transcend the ”area studies” genre and set China”s experience of crime, policing and punishment in an international, comparative context. . . . What this book captures in all its wonderfully nuanced detail is the specificity―and sometimes the pathology―of the mix which currently makes up ”criminal justice with Chinese characteristics.” — Carol A. G. Jones, University of Glamorgan
