Liu Renwen et. al., Multidimensional Criminal Law Science, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2018.

After over a dozen years of development since its creation by Professor Liu Renwen of CASS Law Institute in 2003, Multidimensional Criminal Law Science has now become an academic label with certain social influence. As the final result of Research Project “Studies in Multidimensional Criminal Law Science”, a funded by National Social Sciences Foundation, and a part of the book series “Selected Works of CASS: Law and Sociology”, this is a display the latest achievements in this research field. Multidimensional Criminal Law Science advocates the idea that criminal law scholars, in doing their research, should look both forward (to criminology) and backward (to the science of execution of criminal punishment), glance both left (at criminal procedure law) and right (at civil law, administrative law and other branch laws), give equal consideration to upper-level laws (international conventions) and lower-level laws (those on public security punishment), and connect the interior (strengthening the interpretation of the criminal law) with the exterior (paying attention to the environment in which the criminal law operates). As a research methodology that takes system theory and the economics of criminal law efficiency as its bases, it is of positive significance to breaking the barrier between criminal law dogmatics and social science of criminal law, responding to native criminal law issues, and making Chinese criminal law science a criminal law science with a voice at the international level, while creating bigger space for imagination for the readers.