This book provides an overall introduction to the plea leniency system in China from different perspectives, such as judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and victims. Also, the editors organize the book in accordance with the consequential stages of criminal procedure, including the investigation, prosecution, trial and appeal. This book gives a brief introduction to the latest developments of China’s criminal justice reform, as well as an in-depth analysis of two core subjects of the entire criminal justice reform, that is, the trial-centered reform and the plea leniency system. Therefore, this book can provide a popular reading as well as an academic reference for international organizations, institutions and researchers who are interested in the development of criminal justice in China.
Table of Contents:
The Origins, Models and Limits of China’s Negotiated Justice.- Judges’ Role in the Leniency System of Confession and Punishment and the Institutional Improvement.- Basic Theories and Practical Explorations of Prosecutor’s Sentencing Suggestions.- Sentencing Suggestion in China’s Negotiated Justice.- Lawyers’ Role in the Leniency System of Confession and Punishment and the Institutional Improvement.- Rights Protection of the Accused in the Leniency System of Confession and Punishment.- Pilot Reform of Simplified Procedure: China’s Model of Negotiate Justice?.- Appellate Procedure.- Legal Supervision of the Leniency System of Confession and Punishment.
About the Author :
Dr. Ming Hu is Dean, Qiushi Distinguished Professor and Supervisor for Ph.D. Candidates at Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School, P. R. China. His main research areas include criminal procedure law, judicial system, and digital law.
Professor Hu is also the Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for Judicial Civilization at Zhejiang University under the National "2011 Plan", Executive Dean of the Zhejiang University Digital Rule of Law Research Institute, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Zhejiang University Research Institute on National Institutions. His concurrent academic service roles include: Member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Professional Degree Education in Law Major, Executive Member of the Chinese Society of Legal Education under the China Law Society, Vice President of the China Association of Criminal Procedure Law, and Vice President of the Zhejiang Law Society.
Professor Hu has been recognized with numerous honors and titles, such as being one of the 9th National Outstanding Young Jurists, the National Leading Talent in Philosophy and Social Sciences, Chief Expert of National Key R&D Programs, Chief Expert of Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, and Chief Expert of Major Projects in Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. He was also a visiting scholar at several prestigious institutions abroad, such as Yale University (USA) and the University of Munich (Germany).
Professor Hu has published over 100 academic papers in leading journals at home and abroad, such as Social Sciences in China, Chinese Journal of Law, China Legal Science, and Criminology & Criminal Justice, and more than ten monographs, such as Handbook of Digital Law (2025), Judicial Transformation in the Digital Age (2024), The Chinese Model and Practical Logic of Judicial Systems (2023), Digital Rule of Law: Practice and Transformation (2022), Comparative Criminal Procedure: US and China: Introduction, Cases and Reforms (in English, 2020) and How Miscarriages of Justice Occur (2014).
