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Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China based on Chinese socioeconomic reforms and legal reforms due to the rise in delinquency from the 1980s is presented. The main features of the law that shows the Chinese philosophical underpinnings of crime prevention and, control with the connection between traditional Chinese philosophy and thinking, and the law are discussed.

The theoretical and methodological impediments in the development of comparative criminology in China are analyzed. The analysis has shown that the case study method using the nation as the unit of analysis can overcome the limitation of its descriptive tradition and become a promising methodological approach for comparative criminology.

The implications of communitarian feature of Chinese urban communities for prediction of recidivism are explored. The results indicate that social capital variables generally have significant effects.