An Empirical Study of Community Corrections

Abstract

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Community Corrections was adopted by the 13th National People's Congress and came into force on 1 July 2020. This reflects the great progress that has been made in community correction in China. However, from our empirical research on community correction, we found that there is a problem of over-emphasis on educational correction and protection of human rights to the neglect of the attributes of punishment in China's community correction. While education is important, the task of punishment cannot be ignored. For this reason, a trinity of community correction teams can be formed with police officers as the main body, supported by social workers and volunteers, and appropriate penalties can be added and the conditions of supervision refined to emphasise the punitive aspect, so that the relationship between punishment and education is not unbalanced.