LEGAL REFORM AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION POWERS IN CHINA by Sarah Biddulph ( 9781107405943 )

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LEGAL REFORM AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION POWERS IN CHINA

By:

Sarah Biddulph

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1107405947

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 April, 2012

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Pages:

504

Description:

This 2007 book examines the development of Chinese police powers since the 1950s.

Synopsis:

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.

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences 2010

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