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Review of Yu Mou, The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice

Review of Yu Mou, The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese... Asian Journal of Criminology (2022) 17:105–107 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-021-09343-6 BOOK RE VIE W Review of Yu Mou, The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice London: Hart Publishing, 2020. ISBN:9781509913039, 280 pages, $95.00 (hardcover) Enshen Li Accepted: 2 January 2021 / Published online: 27 February 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021 For the past 70  years, the criminal justice system in China has been rather unfriendly to researchers seeking to undertake empirical inquiry into its practical elements and charac- teristics. Some have long expressed concern over officially published data on crime and law enforcement which tend to be inaccurate, misleading and susceptible to manipulation at times. Others are frustrated with the denied access to “internal information” due to the professed sensitivity around the requested data (e.g., the detention rate), which inhabits scholarly efforts from teasing out the essence and pattern of the system at large. Conse - quently, we have seen a steady stream of studies focusing predominately on the policy, legislative and normative facets of the Chinese criminal justice system. While it is discour- aging to have scant research built upon primary data which explore on-the-ground prac- tices of investigation, prosecution http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Criminology Springer Journals

Review of Yu Mou, The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice

Li, Enshen
Asian Journal of Criminology , Volume 17 (1) – Mar 1, 2022
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Asian Journal of Criminology (2022) 17:105–107 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-021-09343-6 BOOK RE VIE W Review of Yu Mou, The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice London: Hart Publishing, 2020. ISBN:9781509913039, 280 pages, $95.00 (hardcover) Enshen Li Accepted: 2 January 2021 / Published online: 27 February 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021 For the past 70  years, the criminal justice system in China has been rather unfriendly to researchers seeking to undertake empirical inquiry into its practical elements and charac- teristics. Some have long expressed concern over officially published data on crime and law enforcement which tend to be inaccurate, misleading and susceptible to manipulation at times. Others are frustrated with the denied access to “internal information” due to the professed sensitivity around the requested data (e.g., the detention rate), which inhabits scholarly efforts from teasing out the essence and pattern of the system at large. Conse - quently, we have seen a steady stream of studies focusing predominately on the policy, legislative and normative facets of the Chinese criminal justice system. While it is discour- aging to have scant research built upon primary data which explore on-the-ground prac- tices of investigation, prosecution

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