Legal System-China

This article talks about the criminal justice system in China.

General Legal Tradition
The legal tradition in China is the Civil Law system. As is common in most socialist nations, the use of a codified system of law is used to establish how the law is enacted and enforced within their borders.

Agencies involved in the Criminal Justice System
There are two Ministry level agencies that supervise the criminal justice system within China outside of the courts system.

The Ministry for Public Security oversees the policing of the People's Republic of China through the use of the various departments and Bureau's within the ministry (Ebbe 2013 174-5).

The Ministry of Justice oversee's the corrections process within the PRC (Ebbe 2013 174).

Correctional Institutions within China
"The Ministry of Justice holds sentenced prisoners in more than 700 prisons. In addition, there are some 30 jails for juveniles. The Chinese government reported in 2009 that there were also 320 re-education-through-labour camps but it is now reported that these have been closed. The number of pre-trial detention institutions and of special administrative detention facilities for drug offenders and prostitutes is not known" (2016 China).

The PRC has a prison population of 1,649,804 inmates (2016 China). This makes up about 0.12% of the total population of China.