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      Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China
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      Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China

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      Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China book

      ByElisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 8 June 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592091
      Pages 186
      eBook ISBN 9781315592091
      Subjects Area Studies, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Nesossi, E., Biddulph, S., Sapio, F., & Trevaskes, S. (2016). Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592091

      ABSTRACT

      The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in today’s China and offers an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding the reformist attempts. The chapters in this collection demonstrate that legislative and institutional reforms in this area result from political opportunities - openings and tensions at the central institutional levels of political authority - and contingent social and political factors. The book examines legal and institutional reforms to institutions of detention and imprisonment that have occurred since the 1990s, with a particular focus on the 21st century. Its content follows three particular lines of enquiry concerning the issue of deprivation of liberty in contemporary China. The first deals with the academic and theoretical debates on the subject of imprisonment and detention. The related chapters explain the difficulties encountered in this area of research and understandings of the discourses of reform through labour in Western and Chinese scholarship. The second deals with the specific issues of criminal and administrative forms of deprivation of liberty, examining in particular the institutional and legislative dimensions, considering the relationship between reforms and criminal justice policy agendas. The third assesses the meaning of institutional reforms in the context of the changing state-society relationship in contemporary China.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Deprivation of liberty under scrutiny 1

      ByElisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes

      part I|56 pages

      Administrative detention

      chapter 2|21 pages

      What to make of the abolition of re-education through labour? 1

      BySarah Biddulph

      chapter 3|19 pages

      China's socialisation of administrative offenders in the community

      An unrealistic agenda?
      ByEnshen Li

      chapter 4|15 pages

      Deprivation of liberty against one's will in mental health institutions in contemporary China

      ByZhiyuan Guo

      part II|54 pages

      Criminal justice reforms and deprivation of liberty

      chapter 5|17 pages

      Residential surveillance

      Evolution of a Janus-faced measure
      ByJoshua Rosenzweig

      chapter 6|17 pages

      China's pre-trial detention centres

      Challenges and opportunities for reform
      ByLei Cheng, Elisa Nesossi

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Addressing the ‘hide and seek’ scandal

      Restoring the legitimacy of kanshousuo
      ByNicola Macbean

      part III|40 pages

      An assessment of the field

      chapter 8|13 pages

      Framing imprisonment studies in China

      Ideology, law and politics
      ByElisa Nesossi, Susan Trevaskes

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Western analyses of deprivation of liberty in China

      ByFlora Sapio

      chapter 10|9 pages

      Opportunities and challenges for legislative and institutional reform of detention in China

      ByElisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes
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