ABSTRACT
The policy window is an opportunity for advocates of proposals to push their pet solutions, or to push attention to their special problems. The legislation is consistently up for renewal, and several factors come together at this given point just in time. It is a window that opens quite frequently and predictably. The Chinese criminal legal renewal takes the form of making amendments, rather than redrafting of all existing criminal statutes. The problem stream and the political stream are the two main streams that facilitate renewals of Chinese criminal law. Public opinions do have influence on the procedures of the legislation and content of the law. In China, the problem stream consists of national incidents that reflect public mood, serving as external pressure for public administration. In criminal justice, penal populism discusses influences of public mood, and democratic involvement of law making considers institutional designs of public participation in criminal and penal policy making.
