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Back from the dead : wrongful convictions and criminal justice in China / He Jiahong.
LIBRA KNQ4753 .H4 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- He, Jiahong, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China.
- Judicial error--China.
- Judicial error.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--China.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- The setting of inappropriately tight deadlines for solving criminal cases
- The "from confession to evidence" model of criminal investigation
- The misinterpretation of scientific evidence
- The continued use of torture to extract confessions
- The one-sided and prejudicial collection of evidence
- The bowing to public opinions in contradiction to legal principles
- The unlawfully extended custody with tunnel vision
- The nominal checks among the police, the procuratorate and the court
- The nominalization of courtroom trials
- The reduction of punishment in a case of doubt
- The exclusionary rules against illegally obtained evidence
- From investigation-centeredness to trial-centeredness
- Reform of the people's juror system
- Reform of the criminal retrial system
- Changing the mindsets for criminal justice.
- Principal cases of wrongful conviction in China
- Part one. The misleading roads illustrated in the Teng Xingshan case (Back from the Dead I)
- The setting of inappropriately tight deadlines for solving criminal cases
- The 'from confession to evidence' model of criminal investigation
- Part two. The misleading roads illustrated in the She Xianglin case (Back from the Dead II)
- The bowing to public opinion in contradiction to legal principles
- Part three. New developments in the criminal justice system following the Zhao Zuohai case (Back from the Dead III)
- From investigation centeredness to trial-centeredness
- Reform of the People's juror system
- Changing the mind-set for criminal justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824856618
- 0824856619
- OCLC:
- 922836381
- Publisher Number:
- 40025919693
- 40025930907
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