Study On The Reform Of Prison System In Late Qing Dynasty

After the gengzi incident in the 26 th year of the reign of emperor guangxu(1900),the government of the late qing dynasty issued imperial edicts to carry out the New Deal reform when it was forced to go back to the west.After that,as the "foundation of auxiliary constitutionalism",the prison system was reformed into the domestic and foreign policy of the late qing government.The promotion of the New Deal in the late qing dynasty,the loss of extrajudicial power and the fact that the prison system was backward became the main reasons for the government to improve the prison system in the late qing dynasty.Followed,in the late qing government run-up to enter the prison system improvement,and adopted in the reform of the penal system,reform,to examine the western prison system,send member nations prison conference,on the basis of implementation of a series of improvement measures: prison system in the prison legislation,announced "qing prison law draft" became the later the blueprint of prison legislation;In terms of institutional arrangements,the establishment of training centres for prisoners and the establishment of model prisons and detention centres;In the aspect of prison administration,the institute of law and administration and the special training section for prisons shall be established to train and employ personnel for the new type of prison administration.Although various measures to improve the prison system failed to save the bad luck that the qing dynasty was about to die,they pushed the Chinese traditional prison system into the trend of the world's prison modernization.This paper is divided into three parts: the first part is the introduction,mainly to the reasons for the topic,research methods and research status at home and abroad are summarized;The second part of the body,which includes four chapters,in the process of writing in chronological order,with historical figures as weft,through concrete in this paper,the prison system improved because of the late qing dynasty,qing dynasty improved preparation of prison system,prison system in late qing dynasty improved in context,finally it is concluded that the improvement of the prison system in late qing dynasty;The third part is the conclusion that the reform of the prison system inlate qing dynasty started the modernization of China's prison system.To sum up,the reform of the prison system in the late qing dynasty,which started in the early 20 th century,did not complete the historical mission of saving the rule of the qing dynasty.However,it was only the withdrawal of the backward feudal class from the historical stage,and the journey of the near modernization of the rule of law in China was just beginning.