TY - JOUR AU1 - Pfeffer, Richard M. AU2 - AB - There is broad agreement among Western scholars that under the Communists the criminal process in China1 is arbitrary, highly politicized, and responsive to class and status differences among its targets. It is frequently pointed out, quite accurately, that China has no criminal codes and no public-reporter system of judicial decisions and that important substantive laws often are unpublished or, if published, very vague. Theorists of totalitarianism even doubt the existence of legality within such systems. TI - Crime and Punishment: China and the United States JF - World Politics DO - 10.2307/2009750 DA - 1968-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/crossref/crime-and-punishment-china-and-the-united-states-TSo2Jw0crx SP - 152 EP - 181 VL - 21 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -