The politics of rehabilitation within Chinese community corrections: The rise of an enabling and embedded state in a rapidly modernizing society

The sociology of punishment has long dealt with the relationship between state power and penal practices, and how this relationship defines the nature of the penal state. Literature has theorized the penal state through the lens of incarceration in affluent Western democracies. Less attention, nonet...

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VerfasserInnen: Kuang, Kai (Verfasst von) ; Jiang, Jize (Verfasst von) ; Meng, Yuchen (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2026
In: Punishment & society
Jahr: 2026, Band: 28, Heft: 1, Seiten: 109-131
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