Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China

Edited by Mike McConville, Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, UK and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Eva Pils, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, UK

• Contents:PrefacePART I: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE1. Introductory ReflectionsJerome A. Cohen2. Comparative Empirical Co-ordinates and the Dynamics of Criminal Justice in China and the WestMike McConville PART II: THE INVESTIGATION OF CRIME3. Wrongful Convictions and Tortured Confessions: Empirical Studies in Mainland ChinaHe Jiahong and He Ran4. China’s Tortuous Path Toward Ending Torture in Criminal InvestigationsIra Belkin5. Experimental Psychology and Criminal Justice ReformThomas StutsmanPART III: THE PROSECUTION OF CRIME AND TRIAL PROCESS6. Issues in the Reform of China’s Public Prosecution System – Against the Backdrop of New Revisions to the Criminal Procedure LawChen Guangzhong7. Research on Independent Sentencing ProceduresChen Weidong8. The Guilty Plea: An Australian/Chinese ComparisonIan Dobinson PART IV: CRIMINAL DEFENCE9. Lawyers’ Activism and the Expansion of the Right to Counsel in TaiwanYu-Jie Chen10. The Role of Criminal Defence Lawyers in China: An Empirical Study of D County, S ProvinceZuo Weimin and Ma Jinghua11. Compromising for ‘Justice’? Criminal Proceedings and the Ethical Quandaries of Chinese LawyersElisa Nesossi12. Who Should be Entitled to Initiate a Mental Examination Process? An Empirical PerspectiveZhiyuan Guo13. Killing the Lawyer as the Last Resort: The Li Zhuang Case and its Effects on Criminal Defence in ChinaLan RongjiePART V: PUNISHMENT REGIMES EXTERNAL TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM14. Rights in the New Regime for Treatment of Drug DependencySarah Biddulph15. Legal Erosion and the Policing of PetitionsFlora Sapio16. Resolving the ‘Endless Narrative’: Criminal Defamation and Expression Rights in ChinaJoshua D. Rosenzweig17. The Upward and Downward Spirals in China’s Anti-Corruption EnforcementFu Hualing18. ‘Disappearing’ China’s Human Rights LawyersEva Pils19. Politics and Criminal JusticeJerome A. Cohen PART VI: CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS20. Concluding ObservationsStanley B. LubmanPART VII: POSTSCRIPT: THE 2012 PRC CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW21. Comments on the 2012 Revision of the Chinese Criminal Procedure LawJoshua D. Rosenzweig, Flora Sapio, Jiang Jue, Teng Biao and Eva PilsBibliographyIndex

‘Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China is highly recommended. The editors have assembled the leading Western and Chinese scholars in the field to examine the administration of criminal justice in China, showing both how far the system has come and the challenges that lie ahead. This is an important and timely book. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand or has to deal with the Chinese criminal justice system.’