The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice

Acknowledgements
Contents
1. Introduction
	I. Criminal Injustice in China
	II. Truth as Objectivity, Constructions and Rhetoric
	III. Bureaucracy, Ideology and Performance Indicators in Chinese Criminal Justice
2. Researching the Chinese Criminal Justice System
	I. Outline of Fieldwork
	II. The Social Makeup of the Suspects
3. The Construction of the Police Cases
	I. The Context: The Chinese Police and their Role in the Criminal Justice System
	II. The Official Version of Truth
	III. Aligning Confession Evidence with the Official Version of the Truth
	IV. Interviewing Witnesses
	V. Crime Scene Identification
	VI. The Defence Predicament in the Investigative Phase
	VII. Conclusion
4. Reviewing the Police Case
	I. The Soviet Legacy and the Intricacy of the Supervisory Power of the Procuratorate
	II. The Role of the Prosecutor
	III. Overseeing the Police Case
	IV. Conclusion
5. Pre-trial Decisions Concerning Prosecution
	I. The Discretionary Power Not to Prosecute
	II. Decisions on the Modes of Trial
	III. Constructing the Defence Case at the Pre-trial Prosecution Review Stage
	IV. Conclusion
6. Trials without Witnesses
	I. Hollowed Criminal Trials and Criminal Case Dossiers
	II. The Judge-Prosecutor Relationship
	III. Trial without Witnesses
	IV. Managerialism and Abbreviated Trials
	V. The Full Adjudication: Trial without Witnesses
	VI. Conclusion
7. Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Data Sources
Bibliography
Index