Crime, punishment, and policing in China /

Crime, punishment, and policing in China /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Subject:
Crime -- China.
Punishment -- China.
Prisons -- China.
Police -- China.
Crime.
Police.
Prisons.
Punishment.
China.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11181666
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Other authors / contributors:Bakken, Børge.
ISBN:9780742575592
0742575594
0742535746
9780742535749
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Crime has long been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, just as law and order has become increasingly important in legitimizing the Chinese regime. This groundbreaking volume offers the first systematic exploration of the social, economic, political, legal, and practical parameters of crime and control, locating them within a broader milieu of turbulent development and transition. A multidisciplinary group of leading scholars draw on a rich body of empirical data and rare archival research to develop a theoretical, comparative, and historical context for understanding contempor.
Other form:Print version: Crime, punishment, and policing in China. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005 0742535746

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