Death Penalty in China Policy, Practice, and Reform

Explains what it took to advance reforms to limit death sentences and executions in China while identifying the challenges that prevent more extensive progress

About the author

Bin Liang is an associate professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University¿Tulsa. He is the author of The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978¿Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System, coauthor of China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context, and with Hong Lu, coeditor of Jurisprudence: Contemporary Western Sociological Studies and Developments.

Hong Lu is professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the coauthor of Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective and China's Death Penalty: History, Law and Contemporary Practices.

Roger Hood is professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of All Souls College.

Summary

Explains what it took to advance reforms to limit death sentences and executions in China while identifying the challenges that prevent more extensive progress

Product details

• Assisted by: Hong (Greenspun College of Urban Affairs) Lu (Editor), Bin (Associate Professor Liang (Editor), Bin Liang (Editor), Hong Lu (Editor), Liang Bin (Editor), Lu Hong (Editor), Hood Roger (Foreword)
• Authors: Bin Lu Liang, Bin (Associate Professor Liang, Bin Liang
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2015
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology
• EAN: 9780231170079
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17007-9
• Pages: 384
• Subjects: China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment