Articles that are different in their content and goals impact the development of criminal justice public policy as they are studies of new realities to which the government is forced to respond.
Liang, in his article, notes that since the advent of the Internet in China, its influence on people’s lives has been enormous. This entailed a government response in the area of justice. Сensorship, control, and regulation of the global network posed a problem for public policy that needed to be prevented.
A “top-down, hands-on” approach was fundamental in solving the problem and implied a rigid constraint. This form of government ultimately boils down to a distrust of authority and a social phenomenon that Morris describes in his study.
Attempts to regulate the possibilities of the Internet, which is a tool that allows the public to participate more actively in government processes, are quite strict. However, the development of state policy in criminal justice is stimulated by new channels of electronic interaction, which, as citizens believe, can lead to democratization.