To get rich is glorious: rising expectations, declining control, and escalating crime in contemporary China
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Crime rates have risen in China since the country embraced capitalism in the late 1970s. The country had lower crime rates during the communist government that began in 1949. The anomie theory, which explains motivation, and the control theory, which comments on the freedom people have to commit crime, can be used to study the increasing Chinese crime rates. The developments allow criminologists the opportunity to study crime patterns in a society changing from socialism to capitalism.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 1999
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Delinquency and its prevention in China
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Crime and delinquency have increased in China since 1979, when the country introduced a policy of reform and openness to the West. Juvenile delinquency has increased more slowly than adult crime, but has become violent and increasingly linked to crime gangs and drugs. A 1992 survey found that almost a quarter of delinquents came from broken homes.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 1999
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Is money laundering a true problem in China?
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The largest criminal problems in China are drug crimes, smuggling, corruption and all these involve money laundering though and there are no adequate means to detect the market. China needs to make effort in money laundering investigations and prosecutions as an evidence to its anti money laundering policies.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 2006
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