The Criminal Code of the People's Republic of China: the Improvement in the Process of Implementation (the 20^th Anniversary of the Adoption)

The article is devoted to the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Criminal Code of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the second Criminal Code in the history of socialist China. It is a characteristic of General, Special and Additional parts, with special emphasis on the characteristics of the relevant criminal law, reflecting the Chinese characteristics of legal regulation of responsibility for crimes. The authors conduct an analysis of the changes and additions to the Criminal Code of the PRC for the past 20 years of its operation, the main trends in the criminal policy of China, which is reflected in the process of improving criminal legislation, the reasons for which amendments are adopted in the Criminal Code of the PRC. Among these reasons are the need to reinforce the role of criminal law in countering criminal challenges of our time; increase in the number of criminal prohibitions, their implementation; humanization of criminal legislation and mitigation of criminal punishment. The Annex provides an extract from the Criminal Code of the PRC, Chapter 4, integrating the provisions on crimes against the rights of individuals and democratic rights of citizens.

China, 1979 Criminal Code, 1997 Criminal Code, structure of the Code, General and Special parts, Additional part, characteristic of criminal legal regulation, peculiarities, changes and additions to the Criminal Code, trends, causes

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