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Author Bakken, Børge

Title Crime and Control in China The Myth of Harmony
Published Newark : Polity Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (322 p.)
Series China Today Ser
China Today Ser
Contents Punitive Norms in History and Modernity: Europe, America and China -- Mercy and Violence in Chinese Legal History -- The Present System of Justice and Injustice: A Fit for Truth and Reconciliation? -- The Legal Uses of Death and the Norms of Legal Personnel -- The Power of Norms and the Fading Popular Support for Capital Punishment -- Status Hierarchies Revisited: Penal Elitism and Changing Popular Norms -- Cultural Core Values or Modern Norm Cascades? -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index -- EULA
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Crime -- China
Punishment -- China
Prisons -- China
Police -- China
Crime
Police
Prisons
Punishment
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1509556028
9781509556021