1st Edition

New Crime in China Public Order and Human Rights

By Ronald Keith, Zhiqiu Lin Copyright 2006
234 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Examining the crimes that have recently been of the greatest concern in China, the authors assess the imbalance between public order and human rights in the way the Chinese legal system deals with crime. The issue of crime is of particular importance, both because current social upheaval in China has greatly contributed to the increase of new crimes, and because there is increasing... Read more

1. New Crime, Human Rights Protection and Public Order  2. The ‘Falungong Problem’ and the Prospects for Criminal Justice Reform  3. The Modern Chinese Family and the Criminal Justice Response to Violence  4. ‘Organized Crime’: The Law and Politics  5. Crime and Human Rights in Cyberspace  6. Squaring the Circles of Criminal Justice Reform?

Biography

Ronald Keith, Zhiqiu Lin

'The book offers fascinating insights into the contradictions and negotiations between globalization and localization in the legal field' - MARINA SVENSSON, China Information, 2008; 22; 158