General Theory of Punishments (Revised According to the Criminal Law of 1997)

Author: Ma Kechang
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Crime and punishment are two fundamental categories in traditional criminal law. However, research on crime has been relatively comprehensive, while studies on punishment have been comparatively weak. In recent years, the criminal law community in China has paid more attention to the study of punishment, with numerous monographs on criminal categories, sentencing, the application of punishment, and the execution of punishment being published. Academic works that comprehensively study punishment have also appeared in more than one volume, which is a heartening development. However, we feel that from a systematic perspective, existing comprehensive monographs on punishment in China generally exclude the discussion of the abolition of punishment, which seems to be a deficiency. From a content perspective, many issues still have our own views, and we hope to share them with the public. This book, in terms of its structure, is divided into four parts—Criminal Categories, Quantitative Punishment, Execution of Punishment, and Abolition of Punishment—along with an appendix discussing non-criminal measures. In terms of the use of materials and the handling of academic viewpoints, the approach is similar to that of writing General Theory of Crime, in order to reflect the concept of the two books as sister volumes. But punishment