Internal Migration, Crime, and Punishment in Contemporary China An inquiry into rural migrant offenders /

• Main Author: Shen, Anqi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research,
• Subjects: Criminology.; Law-Asia.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Asian Criminology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This work investigates inequality and social exclusion on contemporary Chinese society, specifically in the context of urbanization, migration and crime. Economic reforms started in the late 1970s (post-Mao) fuelled a trend of urbanization and mass migration within China, largely from rural areas to...