This paper attempts to investigate the capacity of restorative justice (RJ) to reduce
incarceration in China. It utilizes a “top-down” approach to explore how macro transitions in …

Based on ethnographic data collected from one local police station in China, this article
attempts to examine the use of discretion by Chinese police in three different restorative …

This paper to the 2016 Beijing meeting of the Asian Criminological Society is the first of two
lectures on the theme of The Silk Road of Restorative Justice. The second is the annual …

In the last two decades, restorative justice (RJ) has increasingly flourished in Asia parallel to
its developing popularity in Australasia, North America and Europe. A few jurisdictions such …

ABSTRACT In Hong Kong, juvenile justice embraces mainly disciplinary welfare and
rehabilitative philosophies. Various statutory measures are applied to juvenile offenders …

This article reviews how protest events in China take forms that are notably distinct from
those of the Marxist-Leninist regimes of the twentieth century. It chronicles the upward …

As a judicial system, the Chinese problem-solving courts are more deeply rooted in
traditional judicial approaches than in therapeutic jurisprudence that fueled the movement in …

This paper examines the unique approach to victim participation in criminal sentencing
within the Chinese legal system, particularly in death penalty cases. Through quantitative …

Area: China is situated in east Asia and has a land size of 9.6 million square kilometers,
which makes it the largest country in Asia. Population: According to the latest official …

Restorative justice (RJ) has developed and grown rapidly in the past few decades. It is
considered a significant element in mainstream criminological practices, specifically for …