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Legal reform and administrative detention powers in China / Sarah Biddulph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biddulph, Sarah, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detention of persons--China--History--20th century.
- Detention of persons.
- Law reform--China--History--20th century.
- Law reform.
- Police--China--History--20th century.
- Police.
- History.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Legal Reform & Administrative Detention Powers in China
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction and conceptual framework
- part 2. Social order and administrative detention
- part 3. Legal reform and its impact on administrative detention
- part 4. Analysis and conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511493836
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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