European continental penal system and the principles of penal value

Author: Xie Wangyuan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book consists of 15 chapters. The first 7 chapters focus on the basic criminal legal systems and recent criminal law reforms in Continental European countries. The last 8 chapters retain the basic structure and spirit of Criminal Value Theory, but with necessary adjustments and modifications. The book is divided into two parts, each with 15 chapters. The first part has 7 chapters, focusing on the basic criminal systems and recent criminal law reforms in Continental European countries—primarily exploring efforts to replace imprisonment. In the first part, I selected the criminal systems of 6 Continental European countries—Greece, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden—for study. This choice was mainly based on the following considerations: On one hand, the criminal systems and reforms of these countries, to a certain extent, represent those of Continental European countries (especially EU member states) and their developmental trajectories. More importantly, China currently lacks systematic works that elaborate on the criminal justice systems and reforms of these countries, yet their experiences in criminal justice and reform are highly valuable for China to learn from. On the other hand, as important Continental European countries, Germany, France, and Italy have already been relatively well-studied in Chinese criminal law scholarship, thanks to several works on their criminal justice systems, criminal law theories, and criminal codes that have been translated into Chinese. For Chinese criminal law research, what is most urgently needed is to fill the gaps in academia that remain unknown! The last 8 chapters retain the basic structure and spirit of Criminal Value Theory, but with necessary adjustments and modifications.