CASE STUDY ON CRIME:CHINA

1. CASE STUDY ON CRIME:CHINA Soophie Sheng MYP5

2. Relate various crime statistics and draw correlations to other data, explaining the relationship. Look at trends and changes. What explains the rise or fall of certain crimes? Compare crime in your country to another country. 1.

3. Hypothesis on Correlations • Other Numbers • Statistics • (The Supreme People's Court Of The People's Republic Of China, court.gov.cn. Web.) • From the big image, the percentage of Juvenile Delinquency in crime cases had increased, although in the smaller, more recent one, it actually decreased. • Something we might want to bring here is the population of those floating peoples. These population, including migrant labors, had increased to a great number. Currently in China, there are about 2,110 million of floating people( China Population and Development Research Center), which may have caused a relative weaker social structure. • They are always pressured, insecure, and not being controlled. It is hard for this group of people to provide their kids a good education, or even a good environment to grow up. Some of them may never had a chance to go to school, or to be educated. These uneducated people may become the next generation of floating people, because the next problem they are facing, also the society is facing is unemployment. • However, the situation is getting better if we look at the more recent data table. From year 2008 to 2009, the number of Juvenile delinquency had a significant decrease. One of the factors could be considered is the work of corruption system. But another one is the change on the structure of age groups in Chinese society: The aging of population. Juvenile Delinquency A latest statistic from China People’s court showed that: The percentage of Juvenile Delinquency in criminal cases had increases from 0.55% to 9.5% from 80 decays. From 1998 till now, the average age of teenage criminals decreases 2 in every 4 years.

4. A Comparison On Crime Rate in China and America • Here's a chart comparing Chinese general crime rate and American crime rate. In China, and as we could see from these statistical data, as Private gun ownership is banned, violent crime is relatively rare. Before going further, it is still hard to say the percentage of truth in both data tables. All local law-enforcements organs would like to see a neat, clean chart to show people how great their own location are. The transparency is limited by either political or financial purposes held by the unknown people and nobody's going to know about it. A chief of local security bureau who wants to promote to a higher position as showing achievements on their official career, or a undeveloped location with a mayor who wants to attract more investments and outside resources, any of these variables could influence the final result. On the other hand, not only one single local organ's doing it. Unreported cases had occupied an unknown number of the statistics, yet the changes that National Bureau of Statistics might make is still unknown. • Instead of numbers on murder, software privacy and other intellectual property issue have always been a weak point of china. • (Persons, Trafficking In. "How Does China Compare." NationMaster.com.) • Analysis Comparing with other countries

5. The criminal law of the People's Republic of China • Article 232: For intentional homicides, the offender shall be executed, or sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment. If the circumstances are not so serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten. “If he causes injury, disability or death to the victim, he shall be convicted and given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of Article 234 or 232 of this Law…” 《中华人民共和国刑法》 第二百三十二条 故意杀人的，处死刑、无期徒刑或者十年以上有期徒刑；情节较轻的，处三年以上十年以下有期徒刑。 3) Intentional homicide Chart a crime explaining its affect on and the role of these groups : criminal, victim, society, police, courts, corrections. Seek to explain the psychology or motives of the prisoner. You might draw on a real case or make a composite case.

6. Summary(YaoJiaXin, murder case, Wikipedia) • On the night of October 20, 2010, Yao Jiaxin, a student at Xi’an Conservatory of Music, hit a woman named Zhang Miao with his Chevrolet. When he got out of the car, he found Zhang trying to memorize his license plate number. As he was afraid that Zhang would blackmail him or otherwise get him in trouble over this accident as she was a rural peasant, he took out a knife and stabbed her eight times until she died. When he was trying to escape, he hit two other people on the road and was eventually apprehended. However, the police released him because of lack of evidence. The police did not manage to properly connect the two accidents and charge him of murder until October 22. • Yao confessed to his crime on October 23, and was put on trial on March 23, 2011 at the Xi’an Intermediate People’s Court. Since he had shown remorse for the murder, it was quite likely that he would escape the death penalty. However, after this case was exposed by the media and discussed heatedly on the internet, most netizens demanded Yao receive the death penalty. Chinese netizens, through the use of Human Flesh Search, were able to find that Yao's father was a well-placed military representative in Xi’an, which added to popular resentment of him. Chinese netizens tend to have particular animosity against the rich and well-connected, either through business or government relationships. • On the other hand, a “crime psychologist”, Li Meijin, made controversial comments on the case in a interview on China Central Television, which was also maligned by netizens. She posited that Yao’s behavior of stabbing the woman eight times was related to his miserable experience of playing piano during his childhood. ‘His behavior of stabbing the victim eight times could have been a mechanical repetition of him hitting the piano keys’, said Li. However, she was seen an unabashed apologist for Yao. Netizens called her the 'defender of a murderer' and also launched a Human flesh search engine to discredit her. Many netizens also thought that the state media coverage of the case was biased, as it covered only the murderer without any empathy for the victim. • Result • "Yao stabbed the victim's chest, stomach and back several times until she died. The motive was extremely despicable, the measures extremely cruel and the consequences extremely serious," said a statement provided by the SPC. • Yao was given the death penalty by the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court on April 22, 2011. He appealed the court's decision, but to no avail. The Supreme People's Court (SPC) reviewed the case and concluded that the first and second trial were accurate. • Public reaction towards the execution varied on the internet. Some claimed that it was a victory of public action over privileged class, while others considered Yao as a victim of cyber stalking/online mobs. • Yao Jiaxin appears at the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court for a hearing on March 23. • [Photo/Asianewsphoto]  Yao Jiaxin

7. Suspected Criminal: Yao Jiaxin • Victim • Roles • Yao Jiaxin, the suspected criminal, only 21 years old, a student at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music, was convicted of murdering Zhang Miao last October in Xi'an to prevent her from reporting an earlier incident in which Yao hit her with his car. Executed. • Motives: • Peasant woman would be hard to deal with. • The victim was trying to note down his license plate number. • Not being sarcasm, “stabbed her because of constant movements that he was already used to, as a piano player.” said a famous crime psychologist of China, Li Meijin. • Zhang Miao, 26, countryside woman with a two year old daughter. For the criminal , she is a stranger. affect on and the role of Different groups

8. Society • This case had brought up a big social impact, especially in the netizens. The consensus from internet had brought many pressure to the trial. The prisonor might wont be executed without these pressure. • However, there are two misunderstanding of the case from the society. A college student killed a countryside woman, such a nice name to raise class hatreds. The fact is, not as being discussed on the internet, the criminal also came from a normal family. Common aspiration of people, bitterly cynical towards the rich: • If a taxi or an ordinary car hits and kills a person, would there be so much attention? • The criminal’s maybe also a victim of internet violence. • Police • Scene identification. • Investigate who the victim is. • Determine whether it’s a simple car accident or murder. • Investigate on the case and the criminal, in this case, Yao Jiaxin confessed. • Courts and Corrections • Yao was sentenced to death by the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court on April 22. He appealed his sentence after the trial. • Discussions • There were two points rouse up here for the case of Yao Jiaxin: • As a good student, who’s really talented on academy, winning awards…He’s like a model. What happened to Chinese education? Are those university students psycological healthy? • Death penalty,