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Project Details

Funding Scheme :

Early Career Scheme

Project Number :

24609117

Project Title(English) :

The Quality of Mercy: Examining The Role of Defence Attorneys in the Process of Capital Sentencing Mitigation in China

Project Title(Chinese) :

寬容的質量：探尋中國死刑量刑減輕中辯護律師的作用

Principal Investigator(English) :

Prof MIAO, MIAO (Michelle)

Principal Investigator(Chinese) :

Department :

Faculty of Law

Institution :

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

E-mail Address :

michellemiao@cuhk.edu.hk

Tel :

3943 1050

Co - Investigator(s) :

Panel :

Humanities, Social Sciences

Subject Area :

Social and Behavioural Sciences

Exercise Year :

2017 / 18

Fund Approved :

444,858

Project Status :

Completed

Completion Date :

31-12-2020

Project Objectives :

To explore the role of sentencing mitigation in China’s leniency-granting capital punishment reform

To examine the role of capital defence lawyers. In particular, to test whether and to what extent the disparity in the quality of the defence provided by privately-hired attorneys as opposed to publicly-funded lawyers is correlated with the choice between life and death made in the Chinese courts at the trial, appellate and review levels

To understand the social-economic roots of the penal construction of death-worthiness in contemporary China

Abstract as per original application
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Research Outcome

Layman's Summary of
Completion Report:

SCREEN ID: SCRRM00542