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China's Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Law: The Law and the Philosophy

Lening Zhang1* and Jianhong Liu2

1 Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA
2 Rhode Island College, Providence

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lzhang{at}francis.edu.


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The present study introduces and discusses the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Law of the People’s Republic of China. The law was promulgated in the context of Chinese socioeconomic reforms and legal reforms in response to the rising delinquency since the early 1980s. The study explains the social and political background of the law with respect to the patterns of delinquency in China. The law has several main features that reflect the Chinese philosophical underpinnings of crime prevention and control, and the study discusses the connection between the law and the traditional Chinese philosophy and thinking. Finally, the study discusses the challenges to the enforcement of the law in Chinese society, which has lacked a legal tradition in its history.

First published on June 28, 2007, doi:10.1177/0306624X06292675

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2007;51:541.

A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2007

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