Author: Bin Liang
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Few social issues have received more public attention and scholarly debate than the death penalty. While the abolitionist movement has made a successful stride in recent decades, a small number of countries remain committed to the death penalty and impose it with a relatively high frequency. In this regard, the People’s Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions. Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted a national poll on citizens’ opinions toward capital punishment, while claiming “overwhelming public support” as a major justification for its retention and use. Based on a content analysis of 38,512 comments collected from 63 cases in 2015, this study examines the diversity and rationales of netizens’ opinions of and interactions with China’s criminal justice system. In addition, the book discusses China’s social, systemic, and structural problems and critically examines the rationality of netizens’ opinions based on Habermas’s communicative rationality framework. Readers will be able to contextualize Chinese netizens’ discussions and draw conclusions about commonalities and uniqueness of China’s death penalty practice.
Author: Bin Liang
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472038737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.
Author: Bin Liang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540817
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays 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 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 promoting policies that society may not be ready to embrace.
Author: Gui Huang
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819716276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Author: Ludwig Hetzel
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640401689
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: A, Tsinghua University, course: Chinese Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law, language: English, abstract: In international discussions China is often criticized for its heavy use of the death penalty; so what is the legal basis for the capital punishment and the procedural background.
Author: Hong Lu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135914915
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time are social facts that make China an ideal context for a case study of the death penalty in law and practice. This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors'treatment of China' death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative. In particular, they examine; the substantive and procedures laws surrounding capital punishment in different historical periods the purposes and functions of capital punishment in China in various dynasties changes in the method of imposition and relative prevalence of capital punishment over time the socio-demographic profile of the executed and their crimes over the last two decades and comparative practices in other countries. Their analyses of the death penalty in contemporary China focus on both its theory - how it should be done in law - and actual practice - based on available secondary reports/sources.
Author: S. Trevaskes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137079673
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." This book details the policies, institutions, and story behind the reform of the death penalty.
Author: Michelle Miao
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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The central purpose of this article is to illuminate the process and politics of China's sentencing process for capital murder. Since 2007, China's death penalty reform has resulted in a recalibration of the convicted murderers' eligibility for execution. The reform heralded a substantial decline in the number of capital sentences, as well as a rise of the alternative to executions - the suspended death sentence. In the reform era, how do Chinese courts determine who should be spared from execution and who deserves the ultimate punishment of death? This article uses quantitative analysis of 369 capital murder cases, as well as elite interviews with 40 judges - from China's provincial-level Higher People's Courts and the Supreme People's Court - to analyze the political logic behind Chinese courts' approach to defining the execution-worthiness of convicted murderers. While there is rich literature on capital sentencing in the U.S., there is a dearth of comparative analysis of the challenges Chinese courts face in drawing the distinction between life and death sentences in the country's unique social and political context. This article seeks to make a contribution to this crucial topic.
Author: Amnesty International
Publisher: Amnesty International
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: David T Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199887569
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world's most rapidly developing region? David T. Johnson, an expert on law and society in Asia, and Franklin E. Zimring, a senior authority on capital punishment, combine detailed case studies of the death penalty in Asian nations with cross-national comparisons to identify the critical factors for the future of Asian death penalty policy. The clear trend is away from reliance on state execution and many nations with death penalties in their criminal codes rarely use it. Only the hard-line authoritarian regimes of China, Vietnam, Singapore, and North Korea execute with any frequency, and when authoritarian states experience democratic reforms, the rate of executions drops sharply, as in Taiwan and South Korea. Debunking the myth of "Asian values," Johnson and Zimring demonstrate that politics, rather than culture or tradition, is the major obstacle to the end of executions. Carefully researched and full of valuable lessons, The Next Frontier is the authoritative resource on the death penalty in Asia for scholars, policymakers, and advocates around the world.
