The death penalty in China : policy, practice, and reform / / Bin Liang and Hong Lu, editors ; Roger Hood, foreword

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Edizione: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 364.660951
• Soggetto topico: Capital punishment - China; Criminal justice, Administration of - China
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LiangBin <1972->; LuHong <1966->
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Hood, Roger -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. China's Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement / Liang, Bin -- 2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty / Lu, Hong / Li, Yudu / Hu, Charlotte -- 3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era / Zhang, Ning -- 4. China's Death Penalty in a State- Power- Based Society / Wang, Yunhai -- 5. From "Killing Many" to "Killing Fewer" / Trevaskes, Susan -- 6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate / Yu, Zhigang / Hu, Charlotte -- 7. Guiding Cases for China's Death Penalty / Chen, Xingliang / Hu, Charlotte -- 8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review / Xiong, Moulin -- 9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty / Jiang, Shanhe -- 10. Between Deference and Defiance / Fu, Hualing -- 11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective / Johnson, David T. / Miao, Michelle -- 12. China's Death Penalty in the Twenty- First Century / Liang, Bin / Lu, Hong -- List of contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this comparative study follows changes in the theory and policy of China's death penalty from the Mao era (1949-1979) through the Deng era (1980-1997) and up to the present day.
• Titolo autorizzato: The death penalty in China
• ISBN: 0-231-54081-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460516803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II