Chinese Healthcare Corruption Criminal Judgments from 2019 to 2025

573 criminal judgments from China Judgments Online, dated from September 2019 to December 2025, involving 787 defendants. The dataset was created by Zhiling Shen and published in May 2026 to map judicially visible healthcare corruption typologies and institutional risk nodes.

Use Cases

• Analyze corruption typology distribution based on the three main case categories identified.
• Study sentencing patterns based on the reported median principal penalty and probation rates.
• Identify high-risk governance nodes based on the concentration of cases in procurement and medical insurance auditing.
• Examine actor structures and institutional mechanisms underlying corruption cases.

Strengths

• Contains 573 criminal judgments with dates spanning over 6 years.
• Includes detailed breakdowns of case categories, defendant counts, and sentencing outcomes.
• Explicitly documents its mixed-methods research design and data retrieval process.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data represents legally filtered governance evidence, not a direct estimate of underlying corruption incidence.

Provenance

Source

China Judgments Online

Collection Method

Retrieved and screened criminal judgments using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design.

Time Range

2019-09-01 to 2025-12-31

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:47:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China