China in the 1980s is in the midst of a social revolution as far-reaching as either land reform or the early years of the cultural revolution. The egalitarian ideals and collective solutions of the Maoist era have disappeared, and in their place is an ideology that validates individual rather...

Through out most of the Mao years in both state and collective enterprises the harsh and abrupt terminations of capitalist labour markets were unusual; also absent were freedom of job choice and competition between firms for selection of the best qualified employees. Between 1978 and 1986 the...

Since the Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress in December 1978 China's leaders have moved decisively to restructure the nation's economy. However, it now appears that while decollectivization of agriculture has dramatically reoriented the rural society, an entrenched urban bureaucracy...

This chapter reviews the attempts of police to elicit confessions to child and adult sexual assault through standard police interrogation and through use of alleged victims or associates of alleged victim as surrogate interrogators. Specifically, we describe the use of “pretext calls”...

This chapter traces the history of the law surrounding false confessions, beginning with a discussion of the twentieth-century origins of the “voluntariness test.” With the recent development of robust psychological and legal scholarship relating to police interrogations and the introduction...