Changes in the Criminal Law of China: General Characteristics

The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in the Criminal Code of the Republic of China that came into force in early November, 2015. Their main distinctive features are: for the purpose of human rights protection the number of crimes sanctioned by capital punishment was reduced; punishment for terrorist crimes, the commission of which results in imposing a property-related penalty, was toughened; a number of acts associated with terrorism and posing particular threat to the society were criminalized; characteristics of some crimes were clarified; the norm exempting from criminal responsibility individuals preventing the return of abducted women was abolished; legislative norms regarding crimes of corruption were The article was prepared within the framework of the project of the National Fund of Social Sciences of the P.R. of China "A Comparative Analysis of Anti-corruption Legislations in the P.R. of China and the RF"(project number: 14BFX003), as well as the project of the Research Foundation of the Heilongjiang University for outstanding young scientists "Researching Institutions in the General Part of Russian criminal law» (project number: JC2013W1). improved for the purpose of effective fight against official crimes; significant amendments were made in the Criminal Code of the P. R. of China in respect of computer crimes in order to ensure social security; the punishment for breach of trust was toughened to encourage good faith in society

Criminal Code of the Republic of China, changes, additions, protection of human rights, fight against crimes, anti-terrorism, national security, crimes of corruption, social security, maintaining good faith in the society

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