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Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays follows changes in the theory and policy of China’s death penalty from the Mao era (1949–1979) through the Deng era (1980–1997) up to the present day. Using empirical data, such as capital offender and offense profiles, temporal and regional variations in capital punishment, and the impact of social media on public opinion and reform, contributors relay both the character of China’s death penalty practices and the incremental changes that indicate reform. They then compare the Chinese exper ... More
Keywords: Death penalty, Capital punishment, Abolition, Reform, politicization
Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231170079 |
Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231170079.001.0001 |
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