NCJ Number
166222
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 20 Issue: 1 & 2 Dated: (Spring/Fall 1996) Pages: 95-115
Date Published
1996
Length
21 pages
Annotation
This is a systematic analysis of the comprehensive treatment approach to social order used by the Chinese government since the 1980s to mobilize and coordinate their society's efforts to fight crime.
Abstract
The comprehensive treatment approach to social order uses political, legal, economic, administrative, and educational measures. This study of the Chinese approach focuses on four research questions: the rationale for this social project; emphases of the strategy; similarities and differences between this strategy and traditional crime fighting approaches; and theoretical and practical considerations. In today's China violent crime is more prominent than ever before; organized crime is more serious; vice crime is rising continuously; and youthful and transient offenders take the lead in the rapid increase in crime rates. The new approach to crime control, basically a succession of traditional strategies with some new measures to handle the problems under new situations: (1) intensifies legal education; (2) encourages increased public participation; (3) improves offender rehabilitation programs; (4) severely punishes white-collar offenders and other major offenders; (5) transforms earlier mass movement organizations into more professional organizations; (6) creates a security responsibility system from officials formerly involved with propaganda and education; and (7) changes legal and police systems from informal to formal control elements. References