Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences

An Empirical Examination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvBin Liang,Jianhong Liu

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Few social issues have received more public attention and scholarly debate than the death penalty. While the abolitionist movement has made a successful stride in recent decades, a small number of countries remain committed to the death penalty and impose it with a relatively high frequency. In this regard, the People’s Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions. Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted a national poll on citizens’ opinions toward capital punishment, while claiming “overwhelming public support” as a major justification for its retention and use.Based on a content analysis of 38,512 comments collected from 63 cases in 2015, this study examines the diversity and rationales of netizens’ opinions of and interactions with China’s criminal justice system. In addition, the book discusses China’s social, systemic, and structural problems and critically examines the rationality of netizens’ opinions based on Habermas’s communicative rationality framework. Readers will be able to contextualize Chinese netizens’ discussions and draw conclusions about commonalities and uniqueness of China’s death penalty practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-11-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieChina Understandings Today
Antal sidor344
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472132690

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Chapter 1. Study Chinese Public Opinion on Capital Punishment in a New EnvironmentChapter 2. Diversity of Netizens’ Opinions: What Were Commented by Netizens?Chapter 3. Rationales of Netizens’ Decisions: Why do They Support or Reject Death Sentences?Chapter 4. Interactions: How do Netizens Respond to Each Other?Chapter 5. Variances of Netizens’ Opinions: Crime Types, Defendants and Victims, Legal Procedure, and Media ReportingChapter 6. Criminal Justice System and its Professionals in the Eyes of NetizensChapter 7. Social, Systemic, and Structural Problems: How Are Netizens’ Opinions Embedded within the Framework of Contemporary Chinese Society?Chapter 8. Netizens’ Discussion of Death Sentences: Rationality or Irrationality?Chapter 9. Lin Senhao Case: A Live Debate of Life or DeathChapter 10. Public Opinion in A Unique FormAppendix 1. List and Summary of All CasesAppendix 2. List of officially-charged crimes and number of offenders being chargedAppendix 3. List of total numbers of netizens’ comments, reply comments and use of foul languageAppendix 4. Basic reporting statistics by casesAppendix 5. A Select List of Foul WordsReferences