Citation

Anderson AF, Gil VE. J. Contemp. Crim. Justice 1998; 14(3): 248-261.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

Although modernization has brought a level of prosperity to China that could hardly have been imagined two decades ago, other by-products of rapid social change have proved less beneficial. This is argued that growing individualism, and a detachment from historical social responsibilities to the group, have had a negative impact on the ability of the community to self regulate through informal control mechanisms. Prostitution and government responses to it are used to illustrate that informal control is weakening, if not failing for certain groups, at this juncture in China's history. The result is an excessive reliance on the less efficient and less reintegrative formal law process. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by SAGE Publications)

China
Asian Offender
Asian Crime
Foreign Countries
Social Control Theory
Crime Causes
Prostitution
Social Control
Crime Control
Modernization
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