Criminal Law, Full Three Volumes on the Definition of Adjacent and Similar Crimes

Author: Editor-in-Chief Zhao Bingzhi
Publisher: Jilin People's Publishing House
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Features: Modern society is a rule of law society. "Having laws to rely on, strictly adhering to the law, strictly enforcing the law, and punishing violations of the law" is the basic requirement of governing the country by law. Currently, China's legislative process is accelerating, and a sound legal system is gradually taking shape. However, the fairness of the law relies on the fairness of the judiciary. Only through the fairness of the judiciary can the fairness of legislation and the principle of equality before the law be ultimately upheld. After the current Criminal Code was promulgated and implemented, due to the uneven professional quality of judicial personnel at various levels and regions, regional differences in law enforcement standards and cognitive abilities, as well as the lack of uniform macro-level sentencing standards and methods, the application of the same legal text or provision in different regions often yields vastly different, even entirely different, results. Moreover, differences in the understanding of specific offenses under the special part of the Criminal Code have been one of the persistent challenges for the judiciary. Misapplication of the definition of one offense, especially similar offenses, is quite common, which has a significant impact on the unity and orderliness of the rule of law. In light of this, we invited Zhao Bingzhi, Vice Dean of the Law School of Renmin University of China and a renowned criminal law expert in China, to oversee the compilation of this 2 million-word "Comprehensive Guide to Defining Adjacent and Similar Crimes in Criminal Law" to provide reference for judicial workers in distinguishing between crime and non-crime, and between one crime and another.