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The Death Penalty in China : Policy, Practice, and Reform.
China currently leads the world in death sentences and executions, making it a primary target for the global abolition movement. While the results have been subtle, anti-death penalty advocates are beginning to influence Chinese attitudes toward the practice, as well as law. Conducting an interdisci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2015.
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- Table of Contents ; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. China's Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement, by Bin Liang; 2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty, by Hong Lu, Yudu Liu, and Charlotte Hu; 3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era, by Ning Zhang; 4. China's Death Penalty in a State-Power-Based Society, by Yunhai Wang; 5. From "Killing Many" to "Killing Fewer", by Susan Trevaskes.
- 6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate, by Zhigang Yu (translated by Charlotte Hu)7. Guiding Cases for China's Death Penalty: Analysis and Reflection, by Xingliang Chen (translated by Charlotte Hu); 8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review: An Empirical Study on Capital Sentencing, by Moulin Xiong; 9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty, by Shanhe Jiang; 10. Between Deference and Defiance: Courts and Penal Populism in Chinese Capital Cases, by Hualing Fu; 11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective, by David T. Johnson and Michelle Miao.
- 12. China's Death Penalty in the Twenty-First Century, by Bin Liang and Hong LuList of Contributors; Index.