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2 China L. & Soc'y Rev. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/clscy2 and id is 1 raw text is: CHINA LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW 2 (2017) 1-62 CHINA LAW IM( AND SOCIETY REVIEW BRILL brill.com/clsr Detention and Its Reforms in the PRC Sarah Biddulph Melbourne Law School s.biddulph@unimelb.edu.au Elisa Nesossi Australian National University elisa.nesossi@anu.edu.au Flora Sapio Australian National University sapio.fellow@cascc.eu Susan Trevaskes Griffith University s.trevaskes@grifith.edu.au Abstract This article reviews forms of detention and their reforms in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We examine the changing scope and uses of both administrative and criminal detention powers in the reform period and the impact of changing politics, ideology, and law in reform of both detention powers and institutions. In Part 1, we focus on the continuities and discontinuities in the ideology of punish- ment, the perceived role and uses of detention in shaping society and in social control. In Part 2, we explore the factors relevant to the reform or abolition of range of administrative * Sarah Biddulph is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2014-2018) and Profes- sor of Law at the Melbourne Law School. Sarah Biddulpls contribution was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council FToo100412. * Elisa Nesossi is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow (2015-2018) at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National Univer- sity. Elisa Nesossi's contribution was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council DE15010n87- * Flora Sapio is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University. * Susan Trevaskes is Professor of Chinese Studies at Griffith University, Australia. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2017 DOI 10.1163/25427466-00201001

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