The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cao, Liqun; Hebenton, Bill; Sun, Ivan Y.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book presents a coherent and systematic guide to the current state-of-the-art research and theory in criminology in China and Greater China and will be of interest to those engaged with crime and criminal justice and Asian Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135021467
• Artikelnr.: 39190569

Autorenporträt

Liqun Cao (¿¿¿) is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. He also holds an adjunct appointment at Hunan University. He has published numerous research essays and is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004). His co-authored paper "Crime volume and law and order culture" (2007) won the 2008 ACJS Donal MacNamara Award - the best article of the year. Ivan Y. Sun (¿¿¿) is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, USA. His research interests include police attitudes and behavior, public assessments of criminal justice, and crime and justice in Chinese societies. He has published more than 60 refereed journal articles since 2002. His most recent publications have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency and the Journal of Criminal Justice. Bill Hebenton (¿¿) teaches and researches at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Law, The University of Manchester, UK and is a Research Associate of the Manchester Centre for Chinese Studies. He has published widely on comparative criminology and criminal justice, and has a particular research interest in China and Greater China. He has been a Visiting Professor at National Taipei University (Taiwan), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), City University of Hong Kong, and East China University of Political Science and Law (Shanghai).

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction: Discovering and making criminology in China Section I Historical themes
1. Historical themes of crime causation in China
Zongxian Wu and Liqun Cao
2. The development of criminology in modern China: A state based enterprise
Susyan Jou
Bill Hebenton and Liqun Cao
3. Social and crime control with Chinese characteristics
Shanhe Jiang
4. Punishment in China
Borge Bakken Section II Criminal justice system issues
5. Legal systems in China
Margaret K. Lewis
6. The police system in China
Yue Ma
7. Autonomy
courts and the politico-legal order in contemporary China
Hualing Fu
8. China's criminal justice system
Mike McConville and Fu Xin
9. Juvenile criminal justice system
Guoling Zhao
10. People's mediation in China
Yuning Wu
11. Death penalty in China
Natalie Martinez
Thomas Vertino
and Hong Lu
Section III Methods of inquiry
12. The politics of numbers: Crime statistics in China
Phil N. He
13. The challenges and rewards of conducting criminological research in China
Daniel J. Curran
14. Crime data and criminological research in contemporary China
Lening Zhang
Section IV Forms of crime and criminality
15. Drugs and its control in the People's Republic of China
Bin Liang
16. Prostitution and human trafficking
Tiantian Zheng
17. Urbanization and inevitable migration: Crime and migrant workers
Jianhua Xu
18. Domestic violence and its official reactions in China
Hongwei Zhang
19 White-collar and corporate crime in China
Hongming Cheng and David O. Friedrichs
Section V Greater China: Taiwan
Hong Kong
and Macau
20. Unmasking crime and criminology in Taiwan
Bill Hebenton and Susyan Jou
21. Official reaction to crime in Taiwan: Tougher on crime and softer on justice
Lan-Ying Huang and Ivan Y. Sun 22. Crime and its control in Hong Kong
Sharon Ingrid Kwok and T. Wing Lo
23. Official reaction to crime and drug problems in Hong Kong
Yuet-Wah Cheung
and Hua Zhong
24. Crime and gambling in Macau
Spencer D. Li
25. Official responses to crime in Macau
Ruohui Zhao
Editors' conclusion: Dreaming of better times.