Crime, punishment, and policing in China /

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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

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Crime, control, and modernity in China / Børge Bakken
Penology and reformation in modern China / Frank Dikötter
Comparative perspectives on crime in China / Børge Bakken
A question of difference : the theory and practice of the Chinese prison / Michael Dutton and Xu Zhangrun
Sizing up China's prisons / James D. Seymour
Campaign-style policing in China and its critics / Murray Scot Tanner
Toward a government of the contract : policing in the era of reform / Michael Dutton.

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