Statistics on Political Crime in the People's Republic of China

The first Statistics volume includes a description and analysis of the political security (zhengzhi baowei) system. Each volume contains political crime statistics organized according to the main components of China's criminal justice system—public security, the procuratorate, the courts, and the prison system and "re-education through labor"—and a glossary of terms at the end.

The information published in this series has revealed a variety of striking statistics, including different parole rates for “ordinary” prisoners and counterrevolutionaries in one province; breakdowns of the kinds of political cases in a municipality; length of sentences for “ordinary” cases; and counterrevolutionary cases tried by intermediate people’s courts. The Statistics volume published in December 2006 presents Dui Hua's research discovery and analysis of statistics from Maguan County in Yunnan Province that disclose the number of executions carried out annually in that county from 1980 to 1999.