Canada’s Work to Assist the Development of Community Corrections in China: Significant and Long-lasting Results

Dr. Vincent Yang of the ICCLR explains the ground-breaking role played by Canada in assisting China in the legal and policy development leading to the establishment of community corrections since 2002 and the introduction of the Community Corrections Law in China in 2019. The CIDA-funded Canada-China projects were initiated in 1997 and continued for over ten years. The Vancouver-based ICCLR and the China Prison Society organized high-level exchange visits, workshops and joint research publications for the sharing Canada’s best practices on community corrections. Two books of comparative studies were jointly authored and published by experts in Canada and China on community corrections. While the Canadian and Chinese systems clearly have fundamental differences, the long-lasting positive impacts of sharing Canadian best practices with Chinese reformers are significant and should never be understated, as evidenced by the rapid expansion of community corrections in China in the past two decades.

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