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Moral Panics, Crime Rates and Harsh Punishment in China

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2004

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Bakken, Borge

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Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd

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Today's extremely harsh sentencing regime in China, which includes extensive use of the death penalty, was triggered in particular by a moral panic about juvenile crime and to some extent economic crime in the early 1980s. The policy was justified by the

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/78925

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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