ISBN:
0313290962
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9780313290961
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 174 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Contributions in criminology and penology no. 50
Parallel Title:
Print version Tradition of the Law and Law of the Tradition : Law, State, and Social Control in China
DDC:
303.36
Keywords:
Law Moral and ethical aspects
;
Social control
;
Sociological jurisprudence
;
Criminal justice, Administration of Social aspects
;
China Social life and customs
Abstract:
Traditionally, social theorists in the West have structured models of state social control according to the tenet that socialization is accomplished by means of external controls on behavior: undesirable actions are punished and desirable actions result either in material reward or a simple respite from the oppressive attentions of an authoritarian state. In this volume, the author presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western model of social control. The Confucian bureaucracy that has long structured Chinese social life melded almost seamlessly with the Maoist revoluti
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Editorial Notes on Pinyin Transliteration; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Law, State, and Social Control in China: Marxism or Confucianism?; PART I: TRADITION OF THE LAW; CHAPTER 1 The Chinese Legal Tradition: Law and Morality; CHAPTER 2 The Rules of Punishment in Traditional Law; PART II: LAW OF THE TRADITION; CHAPTER 3 Political Power and Judicial Independence: Marxist Ideology, the Communist Party, and the Role of Law; CHAPTER 4 The Class Division and Equal Rights before the Law; CHAPTER 5 Punishing for Thought: Counterrevolutionary Crime in Chinese Law
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 6 The Principle of Voluntariness in Chinese Law and MoralityCONCLUSION: Chinese Law under a Socialist Mantle; APPENDIX: Chronology of Chinese History; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-168) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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