RT Article
T1 The 1983 Strike-Hard Campaign in China: a Moral Panic?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 5
SP 1220
OP 1241
A1 Dai, Mengliang
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1727170407
AB Though more than three decades have passed since the launch of Strike Hard in 1983, its impact on crimes remains. Most of the literature on the campaign so far has been theoretically and methodologically limited. Using historical materials and interview data, this paper establishes an integrated theoretical framework and aims at investigating whether and how a moral panic was constructed. This study argues that the top leader played a decisive role in engineering the moral panic during the 1983 Strike Hard operated through a top-down approach under the Chinese political structure. In short, exploring events from the perspective of moral panic, this study gives a deep insight into the Chinese criminal justice system in response to crimes.
K1 Moral panic
K1 Strike Hard
K1 Top leader-ignited model
K1 China
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa016