The Politics of Law and Stability in China

Trevaskes, Susan; Nesossi, Elisa; Sapio, Flora; Biddulph, Sarah

doi:10.4337/9781783473878

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“…Discursive frameworks like Stability Maintenance, especially those that seek to legitimise state-sponsored justice practices, enable authorities to rationalise the choices functionaries make about law and order. We see this in the policing practices of the Stability Maintenance period in the Hu Jintao era and in Xi Jinping's partyled rule of law today (Biddulph 2015;Trevaskes et al 2014).…”

Section: Discursive Framework Of Justicementioning

confidence: 97%

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Sapio¹,

Trevaskes

Biddulph

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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.

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Section: Discursive Framework Of Justicementioning

confidence: 97%

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Trevaskes

Biddulph

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“…As Ren (1997: 6) articulated, social conformity in the Chinese vocabulary is not limited to behavioural conformity with the rule of law but always moralistically identifies with the officially endorsed beliefs of social standards and behavioural norms. Criminal justice work in China is perceived as a didactic interpreter of both social conduct and public morality (Trevaskes et al 2014). Demonstrating repentance embodies an achievement in the moral education of criminal justice work.…”

Section: Suspended Sentencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the 2000s, China continued to stress the imperative of preserving social order. Many observers both in and outside the country have advocated for consolidating long-term social stability by building a robust legal system that respects and protects individual rights (Biddulph 2015;Trevaskes et al 2014;Yu 2009). The CCP is gradually recognising the value of one's voice, as reflected (on paper at least) in its newest strategy.…”

Section: The Limited Scope Of Criminal Punishmentsmentioning

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Community Corrections Under the Principal Sources of Sentencing Decisions in China: The Challenges in Sentencing Practice

Yang

2020

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…Drastic changes or subtle reformist turns happen only if sanctioned by Party authorities, and only when the time is considered politically ripe. The activist disposition of the Partystate (Trevaskes et al 2014) extends to both higher and lower level political levels.…”

Section: Political Will and Institutional Compromisementioning

confidence: 99%

Opportunities and challenges for legislative and institutional reform of detention in China

Nesossi¹,

Biddulph²,

Sapio³

et al. 2016

Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China

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Throughout this volume, we have used the word 'reform' to refer to the changes to legislation governing deprivation of liberty in contemporary China, as well as to the institutions responsible for enforcing such legislation. As many other words do, 'reform' carries two distinct connotations, which depend on the ideological and cultural context of the speaker. For most western scholars who are active in the field of China studies, the word 'reform' conjures up the idea of a teleological march from Marxism to liberal modernity. This connotation is absent from the word 'gaige', the Chinese original for 'reform' which lacks such a directional element. Because of this, 'reform' is a term all those who, in China, write or speak about detention often want to use cautiously, as it belongs to two distinct universes of meaning at the same time.The chapters in this book explore and critically evaluate a number of significant positive developments in both discourse in the field of scholarship and practice in the areas of detention and imprisonment that have either occurred over the last decade or are currently under way. But equally, they attest to the problems inherent in marking a change as a 'reform' (at least in various and sometimes incompatible senses this term has been used by western scholars and the media). In fact, what we have called reform may be better understood and described as variations or fluctuations over time.

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The Politics of Law and Stability in China

Cited by 46 publications

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Community Corrections Under the Principal Sources of Sentencing Decisions in China: The Challenges in Sentencing Practice

Opportunities and challenges for legislative and institutional reform of detention in China

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