Social Control in the People's Republic of China / Edition 1

by Ronald J. Troyer, John P. Clark, Dean G. Rojek

Overview

Where other books have discussed selected social practices in China, this volume is unique in its coverage of the entire social control apparatus of that country. The contributors to this comprehensive study describe the design and operation of the Chinese social control system. Drawing on data gathered in China, the book introduces readers to China's unusual blend of formal and informal devices at the individual and neighborhood level up through the formal criminal justice system. This social control approach stresses citizen involvement and emphasizes prevention rather than reaction. The various chapters describe how the criminal justice system operates when these devices fail.

The book's primary conclusion is that the low rates of deviance in China are a consequence of extensive social control efforts at the grassroots level. These grassroots devices are carefully controlled by the government. At the same time, however, China is rapidly changing. There is an extensive development of a formal criminal justice system and rapid economic development. The contributors predict that China's crime rate will rise as these trends continue. Professional criminologists, as well as students and scholars of criminology, delinquency, and comparative criminal justice systems, will find this book a valuable resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275931766
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/07/1989
Series:	Contributions in Political
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

RONALD J. TROYER is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Drake University. He is the author of a book, articles, and book chapters on social problems, deviance, and social movements.

JOHN P. CLARK, Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, St. Paul, has lived in Japan as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and in China as a Professor of Sociology at Nankai University, Tianjin. A past President of the Midwest Sociological Society, he is currently Director of the University of Minnesota's Conflict and Change Center.

DEAN G. ROJEK is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Georgia with special interests in juvenile delinquency and the sociology of law. He has just completed a second book on juvenile delinquency and has conducted research on adolescent drug use and diversion.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to Modern-Day China
Introduction by Ronald J. Troyer and Dean G. Rojek
A Brief History of China by Dean G. Rojek
The Family and Social Control: Traditional and Modern by Geoffrey Grant
Chinese Social Organization by Ronald J. Troyer
Political Deviance and Popular Justice in China: Lessons for the West by Austin Turk
The Chinese Approach to Deviance: Orientation and Initial Responses
Chinese Thinking About Crime and Social Control by Ronald J. Troyer
Conflict Management Outside the Courtrooms of China by John P. Clark
Publicizing the New Laws: The Public Legal Education Campaign by Ronald J. Troyer
Confucianism, Maoism, and the Coming of Delinquency to China by Dean G. Rojek
Psychiatry and Social Control in China by Deborah Woo
The Formal Response to Deviance: The Criminal Justice System
Structural Elements of Contemporary Criminal Justice in the People's Republic of China by Edward J. McCabe
Policing the People's Republic by Dorothy H. Bracey
Courts, Sentencing, and the Death Penalty in the PRC by George T. Felkenes
Corrections in the People's Republic of China by Dorothy H. Bracey
Final Thoughts
Professing the Uncertain: Problems of Lecturing on Social Control by Malcolm W. Klein and Margaret Gatz
Conclusion by Ronald J. Troyer
Appendix
Bibliography
Index