Liu Renwen et al. (eds.), New Issues of Criminal Law in Social Governance, Beijing: China Social Science Press, May 2021.

This book, jointly written by scholars of Key Disciplines of Criminal Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and some of their colleagues in the Chinese criminal law circle, aims to explore issues relating to social governance and the development of criminal law. The main content of the book includes: Amendment (11) to the Chinese Criminal Law and the discussions on its drafts, pandemic prevention and control and the criminal law, new types of cyber crime, Internet financial crimes, criminal integration and three-dimensional criminal law, etc. The book discusses from the perspective of criminal law such issues as risk society, information society, and social governance issues under the influence of the pandemic situation. It not only carries out specific analysis of new issues in criminal law, but also demonstrates the methodology of multi-dimensional research on criminal law. As such it is a theoretical window for observing new topics in social governance and criminal law development.

The editor-in-chief of this book, Professor Liu Renwen, is a research fellow at and the head of the Criminal Law Department of CASS Institute of Law, a doctoral supervisor, the head of the Key Discipline of Criminal Law of CASS, a special advisor of the Supreme People's Court, and a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.