CHINA UNDER PRESSURE TO SEEK LESS DRAMATIC ANTI-FRAUD PENALTIES, WHILE JAPAN PUSHED TO TOUGHEN PUNISHMENTS
April 1st, 2013
CHINA and Japan offer two contrasting case studies in the punishment of fraud: while China is under pressure to dial down penalties from their past severity; in Japan, there have been moves to make punishments tougher.Certainly China cannot get much tougher, given the death penalty is available to judges for fraud.But there is scepticism about its deterrence. A much-discussed fraud case last year illustrated how shooting fraudsters illustrates a Chinese idiom about using less influential people as scapegoats to scare the powerful from committing crime: ‘Sha Ji ...
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