Principles of Criminal Due Process

Author: Wei Xiaona
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book is divided into three parts: Historical Theories, Theories, and Chinese Issues. The first part outlines the development and evolution of criminal due process in the United Kingdom, the United States, and the international community, demonstrating how due process transformed from a locally colored English common law principle into a general legal concept applicable to all countries and various litigation models. The second part focuses on exploring the logic and value of criminal due process, examining a series of major theoretical issues from different theoretical perspectives and presenting the core argument of the book: that achieving due process in China is not a matter of whether it should be Americanized or Westernized, but whether it should be modernized. In terms of methodology, the book advocates a path of "evolutionary indigenous due process."