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The Chinese Courtroom Video Database

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title The Chinese Courtroom Video Database
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/W659ME
 
Creator Yu, Dong
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description As a part of the effort to promote e-governance and judicial transparency, China has been promoting mass online digitalization of court, including an archive of judgment text (司法文书), a platform of online trial videos and live broadcasting (庭审直播), and a judgment implementation tracker (判决执行).

China has become one of the few countries that allow cameras in the courtroom. Though a growing number of studies use court decision data, little research has been conducted on the court trial videos. The goal of the Chinese Courtroom Video Database is to meet the needs of those interested in broad research of government policy diffusion, judicial transparency, and judicial behavior in the China context by filling the vacancy in judicial data and providing a new perspective to the existing scholarship.

The database includes two sets of data. The first dataset is a catalog of half-million entries of criminal and administrative trial videos in all 31 provinces from January 2013 to February 2019. Each profile records the basic information of a trial video, such as case identification number, date and time of the trial, participants, reason of trial, location of the court, number of views of the video, and other descriptions. The second dataset is a collection of 1,491 audio files of online criminal trials in Yunnan, China. Each audio was downloaded and converted from the original video. The datasets were collected using the Selenium package of Python and Downie, an online stream downloader.
 
Subject Law
Social Sciences
Courtroom Video
Speech
Judicial Transparency
 
Contributor Yu, Dong