The Rhetoric and Practice of Community Corrections in China

Li, Enshen

doi:10.1007/s11417-016-9237-2

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“…Unfortunately, despite substantial engagement of community actors and professional groups, this professionalization model remains inchoate, and the government resides at the center to coordinate community correctional affairs and maintain a high degree of surveillance in communities (Cao and Miao, 2017;Li, 2017).…”

Section: Ccc's Varietiesmentioning

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Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections

Jiang

Liu

2022

Punishment & Society

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In this study, we address two observed gaps in existing accounts on Chinese community corrections (hereafter CCC): 1) lack of multilevel understanding of this penal institution’s local variations in a highly centralized penal regime; 2) inadequate scrutiny of political logics of, and the authoritarian state’s significance in, its recent formal introduction. Those limits may inhibit adequate understandings of state power and punishment in an authoritarian polity like China. To that end, we argue for a multilayered and hybrid conceptualization of CCC as an assemblage of penal welfare and penal sovereignty to understand CCC’s formation and function. Fracturing the holistic entity of CCC, our study challenges the approach to viewing it as a system of singular logics and unifying structure, and contrasts three modes of operational practices across localities—bureaucratic, professionalization, and technology-dominant models. Moreover, our analysis of its political functions suggests that in effect penal sovereignty subjugates penal welfare within contemporary Chinese penality. Far from heralding the full-fledged rise of Chinese penal welfare, this legal formalization represents a space created for the authoritarian state to penetrate political ideologies, and to reclaim, consolidate and exercise sovereign power through managerial penal strategies in a rapidly developing and differentiating society.

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Section: Ccc's Varietiesmentioning

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Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections

Jiang

Liu

2022

Punishment & Society

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“… Source . H. Li (2017); Ge Xiaoyang (2016); Zhou (2015a); Zhou (2015b); Zhou (2015c); Wu (2014); Zhou (2014); Yin (2013); Sun, Zhao, and Ruan (2012); Zhu and Cui (2012); Zhao (2012); Zhao (2011); Wang and Yu (2009). …”

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“…Next, E. Li (2015, 2017) turns to an examination of the emergence and configuration of community corrections in China, based on a study of community corrections in Shanghai. That study finds that the practice of community corrections has manifested strong evidence of actual justice in its form and function.…”

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Staffing Composition, Offender Profiles, and Supervision in China’s Community Corrections

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In 2003, the Chinese government began the use of community corrections to guide the reeducation and reform of offenders. Scholarly research within the field of community corrections has since begun, but the development of Chinese community corrections research is still in its infancy. There is little information about offenders and community corrections’ institutional organization and staffing. There is a dearth of comprehensive studies on the administrative process of community corrections, particularly pretrial investigation, transition of offenders, supervision, and a reward and punishment system. Thus, this study explored these flaws and omissions through research on offender profiles and the supervisors responsible for the development of Chinese community corrections.

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“…An initial pilot of increasing the use of non-custodial sentencing through the use of community corrections was begun in Shanghai from 2003. As the initial pilot was deemed successful, the number of pilot sites was expanded until community corrections were finally introduced nationwide when it was written into the Criminal Law in 2011 (Li 2017).…”

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Criminal Justice Reform in the Xi Jinping Era

Biddulph¹,

Nesossi

Trevaskes

2017

China Law and Society Review

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This paper reviews current criminal justice reforms that have been initiated in recent years under the governance platform Governing the Nation in Accordance with the Law [yifa zhiguo]. 1 These initiatives are helping to reframe criminal justice processes to correspond with the broad governance intentions of President Xi Jinping: finessing center-local power relations, making the authorities in the justice system more accountable for their decision-making, and improving procedures that aim to bring about greater fairness and efficiency. We examine these ongoing reforms in two main areas: the handling of minor crimes and the punishment of serious offenses. We find thatyifa zhiguoand the reforms made in its name continue to reflect a highly legalist and instrumentalist vision of law whose goal is to enhance Party-state governance to control dissent and crime more effectively through criminal law, to enhance politico-legal institutional credibility, and, ultimately, to sustain Party supremacy and social stability.

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The Rhetoric and Practice of Community Corrections in China

Cited by 15 publications

References 15 publications

Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections

Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections

Staffing Composition, Offender Profiles, and Supervision in China’s Community Corrections

Criminal Justice Reform in the Xi Jinping Era

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