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Beteilige Person: McKnight, Brian E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1992
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature and institutions
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Zusammenfassung:In examining these aspects of Chinese law enforcement, the study describes the change in balance from a predominantly military force to a civil bureaucracy, with accompanying problems the state faced in finding a sufficient number of qualified and trustworthy law-enforcement agents. McKnight analyzes the procedures and policies that governed law-enforcement practices, from policing and apprehension to the judicial process of convicting criminals, and finally to methods of punishment
Mcknight also explores the nature of Sung criminals in relation to their place in society and to the background of Confucian values in Sung China. The group found to have committed the most crimes and to have been of the most concern to the government was young, unskilled, and unattached males. This group formed the core of the habitual criminal class in medieval China, as it does today
Abstract:Law and Order in Sung China focuses on the roles that law enforcement and the treatment of criminals played in the functioning of traditional Chinese society. It examines basic aspects of the law-enforcement apparatus: who enforced the law and how, and how these men were recruited, trained, and controlled. Differences between rural and urban law enforcement are raised, along with changes in the patterns and practices of law enforcement over time
Umfang:XIV, 557 S.
ISBN:0521411211