Project description
Gender-based crime and punishment in China
What is the relationship between gender and sexual identity and the criminal justice system in China? Is criminal law used and/or abused in causing human rights violations? The EU-funded RRSPCGBP project will answer these questions. It will focus on the rationale and ramification of sentencing and punishment in contemporary China by investigating cases concerning sexual violence, sexual assault of minors/girls, and domestic violence, the abuse of the criminal law in incriminating acts, as well as activism promoting gender equality and the rights of sexual minorities. The project will shed light on the relationship and interplay between the state and individual citizen, between power and rights, as well as between patriarchy and authoritarianism.
Objective
The proposed research project plans to explore the rationale and ramification of sentencing and punishment in contemporary China through investigating cases concerning gender and sexual identity, that is, sexual violence, sexual assault of minors/girls, and domestic violence, as well as the abuse of the criminal law in incriminating acts promoting the rights of sexual minorities. This research will provide a much-needed while still under-studied evidence-base, examining the relationship between gender and sexual identity and the criminal justice system in China, analysing to what extent the criminal law is utilised and/or abused in causing human rights violations. Based on the examination, the project will study civil society activism advocating for gender equality and the rights of sexual minorities in China as a critical bottom-up approach to address rights violations in individual cases as well as to advance the protection of human rights more broadly. This in-depth inquiry into civil society activism in the cases concerning gender and sexual identity will form a crucial basis for raising targeted plans and strategies addressing the potential restraints and strengthening its forces in working out effective social changes. This socio-legal research, drawing upon the qualitative analysis of cases, quantitative analysis of data, desk-based research on multiple disciplines including feminist jurisprudence, criminology, and human rights, and qualitative analysis of primary data obtained through interviews, aims at shedding light on the relationship and interplay between the state and individual citizen, between power and rights, as well as between patriarchy and authoritarianism. It carries a special significance against the current backdrop that democracy and liberalism have been facing intensifying backlash in Europe and also globally.
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- social sciences sociology gender studies gender equality
- social sciences law criminology
- social sciences political sciences political policies civil society
- social sciences law human rights human rights violations sexual violence
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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United Kingdom
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