TITLE:
Police’s Mediating Role in Participating Coercive Parenting Control on Young Adults in China: A Case Study to Analyze the Law against Domestic Violence
AUTHORS:
Hexiao Yin, Xun Yu
KEYWORDS:
Coercive Parenting, Policing, Meditation Policing, Discretion, Social Stability, China
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.12 No.11,
November
19,
2024
ABSTRACT: Criminal justice systems often tend toward using mediation for family violence-related issues, with criticisms aimed at policing discretion. To address the critics, this purpose of this paper is to analyze the law against domestic violence, coercive parenting control, and meditation policing. To this end, this paper used the methods of a case study of an adult daughter leaving her parental house in China while having some dependencies on them and showing some symptoms of mental disorders. By analyzing the reactions of the worrying parents and the dilemmatic mediating role of police, it reached the result that mediation in China is used as a compromise methodology, focused less on discretion and more on balancing response needs while maintaining political and social harmony. The conclusion is despite its universal policing trend for family violence, mediation may be insufficient in meeting the complex needs of stakeholders to reach a satisfactory agreement. The findings suggest practitioners and policymakers that responding to family violence issues needs to be genuinely holistic rather than simply stifling the case.