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Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony

Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony Asian Journal of Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-023-09397-8 BOOK RE VIE W Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony Cambridge: Polity, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-509-55478-2, 306 pages, $17.99 (paperback) John Braithwaite Received: 24 February 2023 / Accepted: 25 February 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023 Børge Bakken, Norwegian by birth, longstanding denizen of Hong Kong and Australia, is one of the greats of comparative criminology and the criminology of China specifically. Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony is an edgy book. The edge is evident starting with a table of contents that has normal chapter titles like ‘The Manipulation of Chinese Crime Statistics’, but then with each chapter preceded by a one-word title with a single Chinese character: Shuzi Numbers, Trauma, Exclusion, Surveillance, Harshness, Justice. Whatever your depth of knowledge of China, whatever your favoured epistemology, you are certain to learn many things of value from the provocations in this book. It bespeaks decades of reflection on China in an evocative way. First, we are told with interesting details why we should not believe much of what we are told about the state of crime in China from official crime statistics. An interesting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Criminology Springer Journals

Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony

Braithwaite, John
Asian Journal of Criminology , Volume OnlineFirst – Mar 10, 2023
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Asian Journal of Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-023-09397-8 BOOK RE VIE W Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony Cambridge: Polity, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-509-55478-2, 306 pages, $17.99 (paperback) John Braithwaite Received: 24 February 2023 / Accepted: 25 February 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023 Børge Bakken, Norwegian by birth, longstanding denizen of Hong Kong and Australia, is one of the greats of comparative criminology and the criminology of China specifically. Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony is an edgy book. The edge is evident starting with a table of contents that has normal chapter titles like ‘The Manipulation of Chinese Crime Statistics’, but then with each chapter preceded by a one-word title with a single Chinese character: Shuzi Numbers, Trauma, Exclusion, Surveillance, Harshness, Justice. Whatever your depth of knowledge of China, whatever your favoured epistemology, you are certain to learn many things of value from the provocations in this book. It bespeaks decades of reflection on China in an evocative way. First, we are told with interesting details why we should not believe much of what we are told about the state of crime in China from official crime statistics. An interesting

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