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Criminal Justice Reform Moot?

Looming changes to China’s Criminal Procedure Law offer mixed prospects, theoretically providing new protections while legitimising the use of enforced disappearances. But new research based on hundreds of interviews suggests that, with actual practice widely diverging from the letter of the law, the revisions’ real impact may be limited. The authors’ findings include routine co-operation