Susan Trevaskes

This book considers 'law on display' in Chinese courts. As the first sustained study of criminal trials, rallies, and campaigns in Chinese courts, it offers an account of how law and punishment is constructed and represented both in practice and in rhetoric.

Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China

Sue Trevaskes

Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively severe and that more people are executed for crime in China each year than in the rest of the world combined. In this book the author skilfully explores the politics, practice, procedures, and public perceptions of policing serious crime in China, focusing on one particular criminal justice practice âe" anti-crime campaigns âe" in the period of transition from planned to market economy from the 1980s to the first years of the twenty-first century. Susan Trevaskes analyzes the elements that led to the Hard Strike becoming the preferred method of attacking the growing problem of serious crime in China before going on to examine the factors surrounding the failure of the Hard Strike as a way of addressing the main problems of serious crime in China today, that is drug trafficking and organized crime . Drawing on a rich variety of Chinese sources Serious Crime in China is an original and informed read for scholars of China, criminologists generally and the international human rights community.

From 'strike Hard' to 'kill Fewer'

Policing Serious Crime in China

Elisa Nesossi

This review examines the literature on procedural justice and the fair trial over the past two decades in the People’s Republic of China

Procedural Justice and the Fair Trial in Contemporary Chinese Criminal Justice

Flora Sapio

Sarah Biddulph

Claims about a pursuit of justice weave through all periods of China's modern history. But what do authorities mean when they refer to 'justice' and do Chinese citizens interpret justice in the same way as their leaders? This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in Chinese polity and society and how some conceptions of justice have been rendered more powerful and legitimate than others. This book's focus on 'how' justice works incorporates a concern about the processes that lead to the making, un-making and re-making of distinct conceptions of justice. Investigating the processes and frameworks through which certain ideas about justice have come to the political and social forefront in China today, this innovative work explains how these ideas are articulated through spoken performances and written expression by both the party-state and its citizenry.

The China Experience

Justice

Nicholas Jose

Ye Sang

Tells the story of two extraordinary journeys, 3000 kilometres each, one in China, one in Australia. The author travelled by bicycle along the Old Yellow River and the Stuart Highway, in the never-never lands of each country, collecting stories of people and places. Includes a section of photographs of his family and early life in China. By the author, with Zhang Xinxin, of 'Chinese Lives', and the forthcoming 'The Year the Dragon Came'.

A Long March Through China and Australia

The Finish Line

Rogier J. E. H. Creemers

Provides an in-depth study of the ideological and organisational features of China's legal system, as it is embedded in the Party-state.

Susan Trevaskes

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