Empirical research on judicial legitimacy in contemporary China : objectives of criminal trials and a theoretical structure for the legitimization of the court system

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This research seeks to clarify the bases for the legitimacy of the contemporary Chinese criminal trials which has been structured by different systems of control over the courts.On the understanding that the bases for judicial legitimacy differ according to the different levels of defining the objectives of the courts, this research first finds that the main objective of the courts is to "form and sustain a governing order".It then examines the purpose and functions of the system of control over the courts and finds that the Chinese Communist Party in particular promotes this control in order to "form and sustain a governing order".The research also looks into the concept of "justice" in the Chinese court system and finds that it occupies a subordinate place in the function of the courts.