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Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) Book

The Chinese police have powers to detain people without trial for considerable periods. These powers have been seriously abused and are the focus of domestic and international criticism. This book examines the development of these powers since the 1950s, and the policy contexts in which they have been used.Read More

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    Using a new conceptual framework, the author 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.

  • 0521869404
  • 9780521869409
  • Sarah Biddulph
  • 19 December 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 502
  • 1
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