SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS will soon publish an English-language legal monograph by Dr Cao Xinghua, Criminal Law, Organisational Risk and Global Governance — A Comparative Study of Cult-Related Crime.
Grounded in criminal-law theory and the practice of legal governance, the book takes organisational risk and the governance of complex crime as key points of entry. It brings criminal law, organisational risk and global governance into a single analytical framework and develops a systematic study across multiple dimensions, including criminal-law norms, organisational structure, risk formation, institutional responses and global governance.
About the Author
Dr Cao Xinghua holds a doctorate in criminal law. He is an associate professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, a postgraduate supervisor and a practising lawyer, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of East Asian Law Studies.
Dr Cao has long been engaged in teaching and research on criminal law and related legal issues. He has published more than thirty academic articles in Chinese and international journals and publications, including Guangming Daily (Theory Edition), Shandong Social Sciences, China Youth Study, Criminal Law Review and the U.S. journal Criminology. He is the author of a study on Rawls’s theory of justice and its debates and has also contributed to professional works including textbooks on criminal law.
In addition to university teaching and academic research, Dr Cao has a background in legal practice as a lawyer. He has long followed developments in foreign criminal-law theory, comparative criminal law and social governance, and has continuously worked on introducing and translating foreign criminal-law scholarship.
The intersection of criminal-law theory, university legal education, an international comparative perspective and practical legal experience forms an important professional foundation for Dr Cao’s examination of complex issues in criminal-law governance.
From Criminal-Law Norms to Organisational Risk and Global Governance
As social structures and organisational forms continue to evolve, the formation, diffusion and cross-border transmission of criminal risk have become increasingly complex. Traditional criminal-law research centred on individual conduct and single offence structures is increasingly confronted with new questions involving organised risk, transnational governance and institutional coordination.
How can organisational structures generate and amplify risk?
How should criminal law identify and respond to complex organisational risks?
When such issues extend across different countries, regions and legal systems, how should criminal law connect with broader mechanisms of governance?
The book is developed around these questions.
Rather than focusing only on particular criminal acts and criminal-law rules, the book further examines the relationship between organisational structures, the generation of risk and legal responses. It places these issues within the perspectives of comparative law and global governance, observing the legal responses, institutional choices and underlying governance logic adopted by different legal systems when confronting complex organisational crime and related social risks.
By connecting the three levels of criminal-law norms, organisational risk and global governance, the book seeks to move beyond the limits of a single normative analysis and to reconsider, in a broader social-governance context, the functions and boundaries of criminal-law institutions and the practical challenges they face.
Extending the Boundaries of Criminal-Law Research through an International Perspective
Against the background of continuing globalisation, an increasing number of complex legal questions can no longer be understood entirely within a single country, a single institutional system or a single academic discipline.
From the regulation of crime to organisational risk, from domestic criminal law to comparative-law research and then to transnational governance mechanisms, legal questions at different levels are becoming more closely interconnected.
While taking criminal law as its foundation, the book introduces the analytical perspectives of organisational risk and global governance. It builds connections between traditional criminal-law theory and broader questions of social governance, providing a comparative and internationally oriented path for understanding complex organisational risks and the legal responses to them.
Forthcoming Publication
The book has formally entered the publication process. Work relating to the ISBN application, editorial review and typesetting is proceeding, and the book will be published soon by SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS.
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