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- Wei Wu (UGent) and Tom Vander Beken (UGent)
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- This article provides an interpretation of the evolution of criminal punishment and prisons in China from an historical perspective. The historical investigation reveals that the current ganhua and paternalistic or fatherly approaches to prison corrections are expressions of an underlying cultural tradition that is deep and abiding. However, the existence of the paradoxical goals of punishment and reformation at the level of the implementation of prison sentences, which can erode the protection of the rights of prisoners, is contingent upon political and legal decisions that can be changed by acts of law and legal reform.
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- China, criminal punishment, prison, EUROPE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8507473
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- Wu, Wei, and Tom Vander Beken. “Understanding Criminal Punishment and Prison in China.” PRISON JOURNAL, vol. 98, no. 6, 2018, pp. 700–21, doi:10.1177/0032885518811818.
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- Wu, W., & Vander Beken, T. (2018). Understanding criminal punishment and prison in China. PRISON JOURNAL, 98(6), 700–721. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032885518811818
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- Wu, Wei, and Tom Vander Beken. 2018. “Understanding Criminal Punishment and Prison in China.” PRISON JOURNAL 98 (6): 700–721. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032885518811818.
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- Wu, Wei, and Tom Vander Beken. 2018. “Understanding Criminal Punishment and Prison in China.” PRISON JOURNAL 98 (6): 700–721. doi:10.1177/0032885518811818.
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- 1.Wu W, Vander Beken T. Understanding criminal punishment and prison in China. PRISON JOURNAL. 2018;98(6):700–21.
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- [1]W. Wu and T. Vander Beken, “Understanding criminal punishment and prison in China,” PRISON JOURNAL, vol. 98, no. 6, pp. 700–721, 2018.
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