Petition Against the Police: Conflicts Between Police and Civilians in China, 2003–2012

ISBN-13: 9789811902703 / Angielski

Lin Huihuang

Opis

This book explores the petition(信访), a political system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important form of political participation for people at the bottom and an effective means of supervising officials at the grassroots level for the higher-level government. Through a half-year fieldwork of the Public Security Bureau, the author found that the operational logic of the petition seems to be different from the past, and it is the change of petition logic that leads to the dilemma that “the cost of petitioning is reduced but the road of rights safeguarding is narrowed,” or in other words, it's easier to make a petition but harder to succeed for those who are truly wronged. This book based on the grassroots of China's legal system is worth reading for those that are interested in studying police and petition as well as political sociology and organizational sociology.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Petition and petition against the police

Literature review and research approach

Data source

Chapter 2: Petition against the police: a data analysis

  Appeal of petition against the police

  Cause of petition against the police

  Repeated petition and first petition

  Differences between urban and rural

Chapter 3: Why are they against the police?

  Corruption

  Five prohibitions

  Flaws in law enforcement

  The first form of police misconduct

Chapter 4: Police supervision with panoramic view

  Supervision storm

  Power technology of police supervision

  Organizational network of police supervision

  Panoramic view

Chapter 5: Zero tolerance and inaction to avoid complaints

  Policy of zero tolerance

  A system that doesn’t allow mistakes

  False complaint and no-fault punishment

  Inaction to avoid complaints

Chapter 6: Petition lure and unreasonable petition

  Petition against the police!

  Judgment of the judge

  Formation of petition lure

  Production of unreasonable petition

Chapter 7: Petition against petition

  The squeaking wheel gets the oil

  Reasonable petition turns to unreasonable

  Unruly people or civilians?

  Towards to self-denial

Chapter 8: Excessive discipline: the second form of police misconduct

  Combat the inaction to avoid complaints

  The second form of police misconduct

  Unprincipled against unprincipled

  Self against and nothingness

Chapter 9: Petition governance and its dialectics

  Petition and rule of law

  Governance of unreasonable petition

  Dialectics of petition governance

  Rediscover the petition: power discipline and right cost

Chapter 10: Power Determination Capacity and internalization of the rule of law

  Petition governance and Power Determination Capacity

  Standardization of law enforcement and internalization of the rule of law

  Reconstruction of Power Determination Capacity

O autorze

Lin Huihuang is a researcher and assistant dean at Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology.

Blurb

This book explores the petition(信访), a political system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important form of political participation for people at the bottom and an effective means of supervising officials at the grassroots level for the higher-level government. Through a half-year investigation of the Public Security Bureau, the author found that the operational logic of the petition seems to be different from the past, and it is the change of petition logic that leads to the dilemma that “the cost of petitioning is reduced but the road of rights protection is narrowed,” or in other words, it's easier to make a petition but harder to succeed. This work from the grassroots of China's legal system will interest China scholars and political sociologists.

Lin Huihuang is a researcher at South China University of Technology's Institute of Public Policy.