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The money-based incentive system devised to reform the People's Republic of China's police force worked only to reduce the police force's level of professionalism & respectability. Campaign-style policing, therefore, reappeared & in 1983 a "severe-strike campaign" against crime was announced. The campaign culminated in the arrest of over 1.5 million people. Slowly, the main role of China's police forced turned from that of defending the communist dictatorship to that of law enforcement. China's system began to more fully mirror that of the West. Despite its newfound basis in the rule of law, however, China's reformed police system has done little to eradicate the virtual crime wave that has swept the country in the years following the implementation of economic reforms. By using techniques that have worked in the past, eg, mass line policing, & by modifying them slightly to accommodate the new market economy, China's leadership hopes to control crime despite the fact that "socialist policing" in China is now a phenomenon of the past. 6 Tables, 80 References. K. A. Larsen

Discusses impact of economic reform on policing; introduction of system of monetary rewards for police performance, and shift towards "rule of law" and law enforcement in place of political and ideological norms; since 1978. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Criminal justice and globalization at the new millennium".

Dutton reviews 'The Shanghai Green Gang. Politics and Organised Crime 1919-1937' by Brian G. Martin.