Authors:
- Winner of the Asian Criminological Society's Distinguished Book Prize 2019
- Explores how community sanctions and measures (CSM) operate in China and why China is motivated to pursue this strategy
- Draws on hard-to-reach information from in-depth interviews, on-site observations and questionnaire surveys
- Addresses broader topics in Chinese criminal justice, such as how to ensure an effective state-agent relationship
Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia (PACCJA)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
By using the CSM reform as an example, this book illustrates the adaptation of Chinese governance and social control. Ultimately, Chen argues that the current model of governance in China (disciplinary governance) cannot guarantee an effective state-agent relationship; it also denies local governments sufficient legitimacy to secure social stability. Finally, proposing that only the rule of law and an active judiciary can complement these two deficiencies, this book will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, law, and penology, as well as anyone who is interested in how China is held together in a socio-legal sense.
Reviews
“According to this valuable empirical study of the workings of criminal justice in China, the current model of governance excessivelyrelies on social control to suppress conflicts and facilitate forced cooperation. But it is significantly inadequate at resolving conflicts and achieving willing collaboration. Based on interviews with practitioners in two settings in China, this book examines how much progress has been made by recent reforms of what they call ‘community measures’.” (David Nelken, Professor of Comparative & Transnational Law in Context, Kings College London, UK)
“Chen provides a frank, robust, and critical analysis of the development of community sanctions and measures in China, and what their development tells us about the relationship between criminal punishment and social control more generally. I can see the book being of equal benefit to a Chinese or Western scholar, and some of its most profound insights cut across national and continental boundaries. Chen's argument is a reminder of Foucault's maxim, that power is dynamic, relational, and constituted from below, and her account of Chinese non-custodial governance reminds us that governmentality does not just exist in the minds of governing élites. Her empirical account of the Chinese system's implementation is politically, socially, and culturally astute, and rich in qualitative detail. I found it an informative, fascinating, and accessible account of policy transfer, penal development, and the challenges of effective, fair, and humane social control in a modern global context.” (David Hayes, Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Qi Chen
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China
Book Subtitle: Community Sanctions and Measures
Authors: Qi Chen
Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71864-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71863-7Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10124-4Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71864-4Published: 20 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2878
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Criminology, Prison and Punishment, Crime and Society, Asian Politics, Asian Culture