Excluding tortured confessions in the People's Republic of China: A long March towards the eventual abolition of torture?

Since its ratification of the United Nations' Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) in 1988, China has enacted many laws and rules in order to prohibit torture. But torture still happens, and tortured confessions continue to influence tri...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jiang, Na (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: International journal of law, crime and justice
Year: 2018, Volume: 54, Pages: 1-10
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1683372476
003 DE-627
005 20220223164041.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 191125s2018 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2018.06.004  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1683372476 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1683372476 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
100 1 |a Jiang, Na  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Excluding tortured confessions in the People's Republic of China  |b A long March towards the eventual abolition of torture?  |c Na Jiang 
264 1 |c 2018 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Since its ratification of the United Nations' Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) in 1988, China has enacted many laws and rules in order to prohibit torture. But torture still happens, and tortured confessions continue to influence trials, as numerous wrongful convictions demonstrate. This study aims to examine why there are persistent practices of forced confession in China and to identify the roots of torture in China's current criminal justice system in order to mend the remaining flaws. Currently, the definition of torture used in China is too limited in scope, and not all illegally obtained evidence can be excluded even by law. In practice, courts focus on remedying wrongful convictions caused by torture in a narrow sense and are not totally in line with international standards. Even defence lawyers are charged with separate crimes and tortured to confess sometimes, seriously detrimental to fairness and justice. So, more institutional restraints on banning police torture are necessary, in spite of many reform measures that have already been taken. Legislative revisions on the scope of torture and institutional reforms on supervising police interrogations are needed at the very least. All lawyers should be immune from criminal investigations relating to their work during their defence against tortured confession in all cases. 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t International journal of law, crime and justice  |d Oxford : Elsevier, 2008  |g 54(2018), Seite 1-10  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)559427743  |w (DE-600)2412511-8  |w (DE-576)278242537  |x 1756-0616  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:54  |g year:2018  |g pages:1-10 
856 4 0 |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2018.06.004  |x Resolving-System 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3549564511 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1683372476 
LOK |0 005 20191125150406 
LOK |0 008 191125||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-21-110  |c DE-627  |d DE-21-110 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 689   |a s  |a CAT 
LOK |0 689   |a s  |a Torture 
LOK |0 689   |a g  |a China 
LOK |0 689   |a s  |a Criminal justice system 
LOK |0 689   |a s  |a Tortured confession 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-21-110 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a krub  |a krzo 
ORI |a SA-MARC-krimdoka001.raw