Forty Years of Reform and Opening Up: The Birth and Development of China’s Criminal Justice System

doi:10.3868/s050-008-019-0004-1

Front. Law China

2019, Vol. 14

Issue (1) : 73-85 https://doi.org/10.3868/s050-008-019-0004-1

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Forty Years of Reform and Opening Up: The Birth and Development of China’s Criminal Justice System

BIAN Jianlin¹(

), XIE Shu²(

)

¹. Professor, Procedural Law Research Institute, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088, China
². School of Criminal Justice, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088, China

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Abstract

The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in 1978 marked the initiation of the policy of reform and opening up in China, beginning a new chapter in the construction of a socialist legal system. The first Chinese criminal procedure law was promulgated the following year and was revised twice in 1996 and 2012. Although remarkable progress has been made, the level of the rule of law in China’s criminal procedure must still be improved to meet the goal of modernizing the criminal rule of law.

Keywords reform and opening up criminal procedure litigation systems trial-centered leniency for confession and acceptance of punishment

Issue Date: 17 April 2019

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BIAN Jianlin,XIE Shu. Forty Years of Reform and Opening Up: The Birth and Development of China’s Criminal Justice System[J]. Front. Law China, 2019, 14(1): 73-85.

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