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"Contents" [2013] ELECD 384; in McConville, Mike; Pils, Eva (eds), "Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) v

Book Title: Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China

Editor(s): McConville, Mike; Pils, Eva

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955857

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors viii
Preface xvi

PART I COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CRIMINAL
JUSTICE

1 Introductory reflections 3
Jerome A. Cohen
2 Comparative empirical co-ordinates and the dynamics of
criminal justice in China and the West 13
Mike McConville

PART II THE INVESTIGATION OF CRIME

3 Wrongful convictions and tortured confessions: empirical
studies in mainland China 73
He Jiahong and He Ran
4 China's tortuous path toward ending torture in criminal
investigations 91
Ira Belkin
5 Experimental psychology and criminal justice reform 118
Thomas Stutsman

PART III THE PROSECUTION OF CRIME AND TRIAL
PROCESS

6 Issues in the reform of China's public prosecution system ­
against the backdrop of new revisions to the Criminal
Procedure Law 153
Chen Guangzhong
7 Research on independent sentencing procedures 172
Chen Weidong
8 The guilty plea: an Australian/Chinese comparison 187
Ian Dobinson


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PART IV CRIMINAL DEFENCE

9 Lawyers' activism and the expansion of the right to counsel in
Taiwan 209
Yu-Jie Chen
10 The role of criminal defence lawyers in China: an empirical
study of D County, S Province 234
Zuo Weimin and Ma Jinghua
11 Compromising for `justice'? Criminal proceedings and the
ethical quandaries of Chinese lawyers 256
Elisa Nesossi
12 Who should be entitled to initiate a mental examination
process? An empirical perspective 279
Zhiyuan Guo
13 Killing the lawyer as the last resort: the Li Zhuang case and its
effects on criminal defence in China 304
Lan Rongjie

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