“Kill the chicken to scare the monkey”: Heavy penalties, excessive COVID-19 control mechanisms, and legal consciousness in China

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dc.contributor.authorYang, Qian
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-17T16:02:10Z
dc.date.available2024-06-17T16:02:10Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-19
dc.description.abstractIn this presentation, Dr. Liu talks about her most recent paper: "Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey": Heavy Penalties, Excessive COVID-19 Control Mechanisms, and Legal Consciousness in China. In her paper, Dr. Liu analyzed the legal consciousness of Chinese citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic when the authoritarian state invoked heavy penalties to deter noncompliance with its excessive COVID-19 restrictions. China used the approach of “killing the chicken to scare the monkey,” publicly punishing those who violated restrictions in order to deter noncompliance. During her presentation, our speaker will explain why ordinary citizens supported this selective application of the law, as well as how the possibility of being the “chicken” contributed to their compliance (or noncompliance) with excessive COVID-19 restrictions. Her research suggests that the uncertainty and unpredictability of law in the authoritarian state bred fear, which then led to compliance, regardless of the lack of procedural fairness. People's dissatisfaction with the rules, however, led them to tolerate and even support the noncompliance of people they trusted.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipUVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16612
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThinking Time Series
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectlegal consciousness
dc.subjectChinese citizens
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemic
dc.subjectpenalties
dc.subjectnon-compliance
dc.subjectrestrictions
dc.subjectprocedural fairness
dc.title“Kill the chicken to scare the monkey”: Heavy penalties, excessive COVID-19 control mechanisms, and legal consciousness in China
dc.typePresentation
dc.typeVideo

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