From Death Penalty with Immediate Execution to Life Imprisonment without Parole and Commutation: Amendment to Chinese Criminal Law against Corruption

DOI

10.2991/icemse-16.2016.55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Death penalty, life Imprisonment without commutation and parole, officials convicted of huge corruption

Abstract

The paper outlines different opinions on the new kind of punishment in Amendment ? of Chinese Criminal Law-life imprisonment without commutation and parole. To keep up with the current situation, we give an introduction on the present penalty system in China and the background on the Amendment and its nature. The study adopted various kinds of researching methods, such as questionnaires, documentation, comparative experiment, interviews, and opinion polls and so on. We also find out several solutions and suggestions to decrease the corruption and bribery of officials. Attaching great importance to restorative justice, improving commutation and parole system in China and guiding the public opinion in a positive direction are the best implication that both developed and developing countries supply to us. Although it's a long way to go, we should spare no efforts to perfect the laws and regulation so as to build up a more harmonious society.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jie Chen
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - From Death Penalty with Immediate Execution to Life Imprisonment without Parole and Commutation: Amendment to Chinese Criminal Law against Corruption
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management Science and Economics
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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