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  • 4 - Transformation in Policing Minor Offending in China

  • from Part II - Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present
  • Edited by Weitseng Chen, National University of Singapore, Hualing Fu, The University of Hong Kong
  • Book:
    Regime Type and Beyond
    Published online:
    25 May 2023
    Print publication:
    08 June 2023, pp 87-119

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the policing of minor offending in China. In contrast with political policing, where law may be present but is not essential, legal regulation has become increasingly important in defining and regulating the policing of minor offending. This chapter examines the significance of this strengthening commitment to legality. Do commitments to legality regularise police power and give institutional form to a people-centred approach to policing? I conclude that rather than constraining police powers, legal reforms have enacted a police-centred model of empowerment. Do differential commitments to legality in policing explain the difference between political and ordinary policing? This chapter concludes that the distinction between political and ordinary policing is not clear, as the concept of legality itself is permeated by and supports (rather than contests) fundamental principles of Party leadership and its core ideological commitments, as well as reflecting the pragmatic objectives of governing social order and maintaining political control.