The Chinese Experience:: A Survey of Pilot Projects on Criminal Justice Reform

Experiments are one of the most important empirical research methods. Empirical research based on the experimental method is becoming a principal approach to-as well as prominent characteristic of -Chinese legal reform. This book describes the application of the experimental method to criminal justice reform. It analyses pilot projects conducted by Chinese criminal procedure researchers over the past decade to illustrate the steps and methods of using pilot projects to advance criminal justice reforms, the successes and the limitations of this approach to promoting reform, and many other lessons that can be learned from these projects. This book, which is written in both Chinese and English, can serve not only as a resource for conducting empirical legal research, but also as a window for understanding criminal justice reform in China.