Critique internationale
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I.S.B.N.9782724630572
220 pages

p. 79 à 108
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no 33 2006/4

Les faux-semblants de la réforme du droit pénal vietnamien (1985-2005)

Céline Marangé
The reform of Vietnamese criminal law engaged in the early 1980s has proved deceptive: it never led to the de-politicization of penal practices and of the characterization of crimes. The judicial and legal apparatus of social control was merely superimposed upon preexistent disciplinary mechanisms, instead of replacing them. Admittedly, codifying criminal law, rationalizing judiciary organization and reinforcing judicial review have put an end to the lawlessness of the revolutionary era and to “government by morality” – up to a certain point. But the reinforcement of legality has not established the rule of law, only a “government by the law” of sorts, because it was really only intended to consolidate social control, to provide a legal frame for economic reform, and to supply the regime with a new, legalrational source of legitimacy. Besides, criminal charges are only superficially de-politicized in the 1999 Criminal Code: the influence of socialist theories of law, revolutionary justice and customary law is still obvious in the definition of criminal responsibility, and the characterization and hierarchy of crimes. Finally, the sentencing system remains essentially the same. Based on repression, exemplary punishment and reeducation, it is a product of socialist theories of social hygiene and certain Vietnamese popular beliefs.
• Légalité et légitimité politique
— La loi, un instrument au service de la révolution socialiste
— Souveraineté de la loi et codification du droit
— Gouvernement par la loi ou État de droit ?
• La qualification du crime
— Confucianisme et modernité
— Vestiges du droit coutumier et révolutionnaire
— Dépolitisation de la qualification du crime ?
• La finalité des peines
— Répression, rééducation et surveillance
— Exemplarité des peines et eschatologie


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