The death penalty in China : policy, practice, and reform / Bin Liang and Hong Lu, editors ; Roger Hood, foreword.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liang, Bin, 1972- editor.

Lu, Hong, 1966- editor.

Standardized Title:

Death penalty in China (Liang and Lu)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--China.

Capital punishment.

Criminal justice, Administration of--China.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this comparative study follows changes in the theory and policy of China's death penalty from the Mao era (1949-1979) through the Deng era (1980-1997) and up to the present day.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Hood, Roger

Preface and acknowledgments

1. China's Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement / Liang, Bin

2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty / Lu, Hong / Li, Yudu / Hu, Charlotte

3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era / Zhang, Ning

4. China's Death Penalty in a State- Power- Based Society / Wang, Yunhai

5. From "Killing Many" to "Killing Fewer" / Trevaskes, Susan

6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate / Yu, Zhigang / Hu, Charlotte

7. Guiding Cases for China's Death Penalty / Chen, Xingliang / Hu, Charlotte

8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review / Xiong, Moulin

9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty / Jiang, Shanhe

10. Between Deference and Defiance / Fu, Hualing

11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective / Johnson, David T. / Miao, Michelle

12. China's Death Penalty in the Twenty- First Century / Liang, Bin / Lu, Hong

List of contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231540810

0231540817

OCLC:

1054877142