Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China

ISBN-13: 9781138606128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Elisa Nesossi; Sarah Biddulph; Flora Sapio

Opis

This collection investigates detention powers in today’s China and offers an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding attempts to reform institutions of detention and imprisonment since the 1990s. The study assesses the complexities inherent in the process of reform in an authoritarian state whilst looking at specific issues as well as theoretical debates, and also assesses the meaning of institutional reforms in the context of the changing state-society relationship in contemporary China.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Deprivation of liberty under scrutiny, Elisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio and Susan Trevaskes. Part I Administrative Detention: What to make of the abolition of re-education through labour?, Sarah Biddulph; China’s socialization of administrative offenders in the community: an unrealistic agenda?, Enshen Li; Deprivation of liberty against one’s will in mental health institutions in contemporary China, Zhiyuan Guo. Part II Criminal Justice Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty: Residential surveillance: evolution of a Janus-faced measure, Joshua Rosenzweig; China’s pre-trial detention centres: challenges and opportunities for reform, Cheng Lei and Elisa Nesossi; Addressing the ‘hide and seek’ scandal: restoring the legitimacy of kanshousuo, Nicola Macbean. Part III An Assessment of the Field: Framing imprisonment studies in China: ideology, law and politics, Elisa Nesossi and Susan Trevaskes; Western analyses of deprivation of liberty in China, Flora Sapio; Opportunities and challenges for legislative and institutional reform of detention in China, Elisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio and Susan Trevaskes. Index.