Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China write by Sarah Biddulph. This book was released on 2007-12-20. Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a conceptual framework, this 2007 book examines the processes of legal reform in post-socialist countries such as China. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the 'field', the increasingly complex and contested processes of legal reform are analysed in relation to police powers. The impact of China's post-1978 legal reforms on police powers is examined through a detailed analysis of three administrative detention powers: detention for education of prostitutes; coercive drug rehabilitation; and re-education through labour. The debate surrounding the abolition in 1996 of detention for investigation (also known as shelter and investigation) is also considered. Despite over 20 years of legal reform, police powers remain poorly defined by law and subject to minimal legal constraint. They continue to be seriously and systematically abused. However, there has been both systematic and occasionally dramatic reform of these powers. This book considers the processes which have made these legal changes possible.
Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China
Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China write by Elisa Nesossi. This book was released on 2016-06-03. Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in today’s China and offers an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding the reformist attempts. The chapters in this collection demonstrate that legislative and institutional reforms in this area result from political opportunities - openings and tensions at the central institutional levels of political authority - and contingent social and political factors. The book examines legal and institutional reforms to institutions of detention and imprisonment that have occurred since the 1990s, with a particular focus on the 21st century. Its content follows three particular lines of enquiry concerning the issue of deprivation of liberty in contemporary China. The first deals with the academic and theoretical debates on the subject of imprisonment and detention. The related chapters explain the difficulties encountered in this area of research and understandings of the discourses of reform through labour in Western and Chinese scholarship. The second deals with the specific issues of criminal and administrative forms of deprivation of liberty, examining in particular the institutional and legislative dimensions, considering the relationship between reforms and criminal justice policy agendas. The third assesses the meaning of institutional reforms in the context of the changing state-society relationship in contemporary China.
The Stability Imperative
The Stability Imperative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stability Imperative write by Sarah Biddulph. This book was released on 2015-06-05. The Stability Imperative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Stability preservation” (weiwen) has long been an imperative of China’s one-party state. At the same time, China has recently embedded a commitment to the protection of human rights in its constitution. This book examines the multiple and shifting ways in which weiwen impinges on the implementation of human rights. Using case studies, Sarah Biddulph methodically examines the state’s response to labour unrest, medical disputes, and forced housing evictions. As she demonstrates, the state’s reaction can vary from taking steps to ameliorate the underlying causes of the citizens’ grievances to the repression of rights-related protests and the punishment of protestors. The Stability Imperative: Human Rights and Law in China reveals how the systematic failure of the legal system to protect rights coupled with an overemphasis on coercive forms of stability preservation is undermining the authority of law in China and could, ultimately, damage the Communist Party’s leadership.
The Legal Field of Policing in China
The Legal Field of Policing in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legal Field of Policing in China write by Sarah Biddulph. This book was released on 2004. The Legal Field of Policing in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
China's Legal Reform
China's Legal Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Legal Reform write by Keyuan Zou. This book was released on 2006-09-01. China's Legal Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China’s legal system has drawn ever more attention from the international community. It has been developing at a very significant pace since China carried out economic reform and instituted an “open door” policy in 1978.China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had a tremendous impact on the development and reform of China’s legal system. This book focuses on the recent developments of China’s legal system as well as its reform in the context of globalization. It covers various hot and timely topics, including constitutional changes, the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the law, legislation, law-based administration, laws for anti-corruption campaigns, judicial reform, legal education and China’s compliance with international law. The book is suitable for lawyers, whether practicing or academic, officials in national governments and international organizations and students and scholars in academia, who are interested in China, Chinese law, comparative and international law.
