Courts and criminal justice in contemporary China / Susan Trevaskes.

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2007.

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Criminal procedure -- China.

Criminal justice, Adminstration of -- China.

1. Politics and authority-building in criminal court work

2. Courts on trial

3. Expressive punishment: the court sentencing rally

4. The rise of the anti-crime campaign in post-Mao court work

5. Striking hard: the politics of law and order

6. Chop-suey justice

7. Courts on the campaign path in the twenty-first century

8. Conclusion: criminal court work then and now.

Susan Trevaskes provides a study of Chinese judicial power as it is manifested in law and order campaigns and shame punishment. She examines today's court practices and their antecedents in China, with particular reference to criminal procedure.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780739119884

xi, 227 p. ; 23 cm