Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China

Elisa Nesossi is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University. Her research interests include Chinese law and institutions, comparative criminal justice and human rights law. Sarah Biddulph is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School. Her research focuses on the Chinese legal system, with a particular focus on contemporary administrative, criminal procedure and labour law and the law regulating social and economic rights Flora Sapio is an associate at the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. She has published on Chinese criminal law, criminal justice, legal philosophy in China and the Chinese Communist Party regulatory system. Susan Trevaskes is a professor and member of the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University and an Adjunct Director of the Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University. Her main research interests include the death penalty, policing, drug crime, public shaming events and justice system reform in China.

Contents: Preface; Deprivation of liberty under scrutiny, Elisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio and Susan Trevaskes. Part I Administrative Detention: What to make of the abolition of re-education through labour?, Sarah Biddulph; China’s socialization of administrative offenders in the community: an unrealistic agenda?, Enshen Li; Deprivation of liberty against one’s will in mental health institutions in contemporary China, Zhiyuan Guo. Part II Criminal Justice Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty: Residential surveillance: evolution of a Janus-faced measure, Joshua Rosenzweig; China’s pre-trial detention centres: challenges and opportunities for reform, Cheng Lei and Elisa Nesossi; Addressing the ‘hide and seek’ scandal: restoring the legitimacy of kanshousuo, Nicola Macbean. Part III An Assessment of the Field: Framing imprisonment studies in China: ideology, law and politics, Elisa Nesossi and Susan Trevaskes; Western analyses of deprivation of liberty in China, Flora Sapio; Opportunities and challenges for legislative and institutional reform of detention in China, Elisa Nesossi, Sarah Biddulph, Flora Sapio and Susan Trevaskes. Index.