Legal reform and administrative detention powers in China / Sarah Biddulph.
2007
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Legal reform and administrative detention powers in China / Sarah Biddulph.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. 1. Introduction and conceptual framework
pt. 2. Social order and administrative detention
pt. 3. Legal reform and its impact on administrative detention
pt. 4. Analysis and conclusion.
pt. 2. Social order and administrative detention
pt. 3. Legal reform and its impact on administrative detention
pt. 4. Analysis and conclusion.
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.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511493836 ebook
9780521869409 (hardback)
9781107405943 (paperback)
9780521869409 (hardback)
9781107405943 (paperback)
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