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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Authors: Kuang, Kai (Author) ; Jiang, Jize (Author) ; Meng, Yuchen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2026
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2026, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-131
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Comparative penology
Penal welfarism
embedded state
enabling state
Chinese penal state
Chinese community corrections