title: Public security and police law in China
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metadata.value: Alexandre, Chitov
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:34:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:34:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Chitov, Alexandre. 2022. Public security and police law in China. Pravovedenie 66 (1): 5–18. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.101
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38317
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metadata.value: The Chinese police performs a wide spectrum of social functions. The first part of this paper
  presents a daily routine of a district police station in the city of Kunming, Yunnan Province, and
  the various social functions they perform. Mediation among members of the local community in
  solving minor conflicts is one of the police’s main functions. Police officers are highly motivated
  in their work. Their success is measured by the degree of satisfaction of their local community.
  The methods of Chinese police are unique. Its force lies not so much in the extensiveness of
  governmental control over the life of ordinary citizens as in the wide network of personal relationships
  between the police and the members of the Chinese public. This network as well as
  the variety of functions has a single ultimate goal: public security. The second part of the paper
  examines the concept of public security in Chinese law. It is impossible to understand the whole
  of the Chinese legal system in its dynamic without taking into account the normative importance
  of the concept of public security or public order. In China, public order and public security
  are synonymous. They are understood differently from the Western legal tradition. In the West,
  public order is a delineation of freedom of private individuals to act pursuing their own interests.
  It exists to secure the individual rights and liberties. In China, it is the condition for the stability,
  greatness and prosperity of the Chinese nation. The third part of the paper examines the
  relationship between public security and human rights. It is argued that the criticism of China
  by the Western human rights activists fails to understand the Chinese perspective. The Chinese
  police’s measures restricting individual freedoms should not be understood as the violation of
  human rights, on the contrary, it is a protection of the majority’s essential right to public order.
  The idea of public security in the work of Chinese police is not simply an ideological slogan, it
  is an essential principle of the Chinese legal system which invigorates and innerves the work of
  the Chinese police.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 66; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: China
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: police
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public security
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: human rights
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Public security and police law in China
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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