RT Article
T1 China and "La questione criminale" ("the criminal question"): Revolutionary and reformist periods
JF International journal of law, crime and justice
VO 52
SP 98
OP 105
A1 Cao, Liqun
A2 Hebenton, Bill
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1681963892
AB While there is good recent scholarship on the social production of police and crime statistics in China, arguably the matter of the more contextualising "criminal question," particularly during Mao's time (1949-1976), has not been re-visited or scrutinised in recent years. The mixing of revolutionary socialist and post-reform discourses has permitted usages of terms according to their surface meanings in English without consideration of their complex historical meanings. Thus Chinese realities can be misunderstood. In the revolutionary period, crime became broadly conflated with China's own version of Marxist-Leninist law and justice. This article examines the changing nature of the "criminal question" during both Mao's time, where the political question of friend/enemy was key, and the economic reformist period where the social dynamic was based on profit and loss and where the myth of markets and commodities came to be "naturalised."
K1 China
K1 Crime definition
K1 Law
K1 Mao
K1 Reform
K1 Revolution
DO 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.10.002