Criminal justice in China [electronic resource] : an empirical inquiry / Mike McConville ...[and others].

The political, economic and social transformations that have taken place in China over the last half-century have had a major impact upon the formal methods, institutions and mechanisms used to deal with alleged criminal infractions. This path-breaking book, based upon the largest and most systemati...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Elgar)
Main Author: McConville, Michael
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing
Other title:Elgar online.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sources of police cases
  • Police powers in relation to detention and arrest
  • The construction of the police case
  • Pre-trial preparation of prosecutors
  • Pre-trial involvement of judges
  • The construction of the defence case
  • Trial procedure, rules, setting and personnel
  • The trial : case file analysis
  • The prosecution observed
  • the defence at trial observed (1)
  • The defence at trial observed (2)
  • Trial outcomes observed
  • The process and the system
  • Conclusion.