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Article: Politics of Crime Control: How Campaign-Style Law Enforcement Sustains Authoritarian Rule in China
Title | Politics of Crime Control: How Campaign-Style Law Enforcement Sustains Authoritarian Rule in China |
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Keywords | authoritarian rule campaign-style law enforcement legitimacy crisis organized crime severe and swift justice the 'sweep away black' campaign |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/ |
Citation | The British Journal of Criminology, 2020, v. 60 n. 2, p. 422-443 How to Cite? |
Abstract | How does campaign-style law enforcement sustain authoritarian rule? Drawing on fieldwork data and published materials, this article enhances the understanding of law and politics in authoritarian regimes by investigating the role of the ‘sweep away black' campaign—designed to combat organized and gang crime—in strengthening China's authoritarian regime. It argues that the campaign helps the party-state enhance its authoritarian rule by resolving the legitimacy crisis caused by economic slowdown, gangs' infiltration in grassroots political structures and problems of police corruption and shirking. But the campaign distorts the criminal justice system by demanding that criminal justice organs deliver severe and swift justice. It also harms China's private sector because local governments may expand the targets of repression to include private enterprises. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279502 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.045 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, P | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-01T07:18:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-01T07:18:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The British Journal of Criminology, 2020, v. 60 n. 2, p. 422-443 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0007-0955 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279502 | - |
dc.description.abstract | How does campaign-style law enforcement sustain authoritarian rule? Drawing on fieldwork data and published materials, this article enhances the understanding of law and politics in authoritarian regimes by investigating the role of the ‘sweep away black' campaign—designed to combat organized and gang crime—in strengthening China's authoritarian regime. It argues that the campaign helps the party-state enhance its authoritarian rule by resolving the legitimacy crisis caused by economic slowdown, gangs' infiltration in grassroots political structures and problems of police corruption and shirking. But the campaign distorts the criminal justice system by demanding that criminal justice organs deliver severe and swift justice. It also harms China's private sector because local governments may expand the targets of repression to include private enterprises. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The British Journal of Criminology | - |
dc.rights | Pre-print: Journal Title] ©: [year] [owner as specified on the article] Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of xxxxxx]. All rights reserved. Pre-print (Once an article is published, preprint notice should be amended to): This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the Article as published in the print edition of the Journal.] Post-print: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in [insert journal title] following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: xxxxxxx [insert URL that the author will receive upon publication here]. | - |
dc.subject | authoritarian rule | - |
dc.subject | campaign-style law enforcement | - |
dc.subject | legitimacy crisis | - |
dc.subject | organized crime | - |
dc.subject | severe and swift justice | - |
dc.subject | the 'sweep away black' campaign | - |
dc.title | Politics of Crime Control: How Campaign-Style Law Enforcement Sustains Authoritarian Rule in China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wang, P: pengwang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wang, P=rp01936 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/bjc/azz065 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85082025525 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 308486 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 60 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 422 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 443 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000536471000010 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.relation.project | Explaining the persistence of campaign-style policing against organised crime in mainland China | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0007-0955 | - |