Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony Bakken Brge
Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony Bakken Brge China is a transitional society with one of the highest inequality rates in the world. Yet China reports extremely low crime rates.…
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Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony Bakken Brge
China is a transitional society with one of the highest inequality rates in the world. Yet China reports extremely low crime rates. Criminologists would typify this as a highly toxic combination, creating very high levels of crime.
Looking beyond the statistics, Bakken discovers that violent crime is a particularly 'sensitive issue', deliberately censored by party propaganda and by an unaccountable police force that can 'vanish' any type of crime to a degree that makes a 'crime rate' a mere formality. How might this be?With this book, B rge Bakken shows that the reality in China does not match the rosy picture of low crime and rule-by-law that the authorities present to the world. As Bakken reveals, official Chinese crime statistics cannot be used to make assumptions about China's crime profile.
Even the assumption that crime represents the problem and control its solution is