The Death Penalty in China - Policy, Practice, and Reform

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17006-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 684 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liang, Bin

Lu, Hong

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hood, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ForewordPreface and Acknowledgments1. China's Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement, by Bin Liang2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty, by Hong Lu, Yudu Liu, and Charlotte Hu3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era, by Ning Zhang4. China's Death Penalty in a State-Power-Based Society, by Yunhai Wang5. From "Killing Many" to "Killing Fewer", by Susan Trevaskes6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate, by Zhigang Yu (translated by Charlotte Hu)7. Guiding Cases for China's Death Penalty: Analysis and Reflection, by Xingliang Chen (translated by Charlotte Hu)8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review: An Empirical Study on Capital Sentencing, by Moulin Xiong9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty, by Shanhe Jiang10. Between Deference and Defiance: Courts and Penal Populism in Chinese Capital Cases, by Hualing Fu11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective, by David T. Johnson and Michelle Miao12. China's Death Penalty in the Twenty-First Century, by Bin Liang and Hong LuList of ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Bin Liang is an associate professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University;Tulsa. He is the author of The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978;Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System, coauthor of China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context, and with Hong Lu, coeditor of Jurisprudence: Contemporary Western Sociological Studies and Developments.

Hong Lu is professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the coauthor of Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective and China's Death Penalty: History, Law and Contemporary Practices.

Roger Hood is professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of All Souls College.