Criminal Law

Author: Gao Mingxuan, edited by Ma Kechang
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This textbook is one of the core course textbooks for law majors in higher education institutions across the country, organized by the Ministry of Education for the 21st century. It is co-authored by some professors from the doctoral programs in Criminal Law at Renmin University of China and Wuhan University, and is intended for undergraduate use in higher education institutions. Criminal Law is an important core course in higher education law. This textbook strives to adhere to the requirements of core course textbooks for higher education law majors, accurately explaining the basic principles and fundamental knowledge of criminal law in China, while emphasizing scientificity, systematicity, relative stability, and contemporary relevance. Especially to meet the needs of China's reform and opening-up and the construction of a socialist state under the rule of law, this textbook pays great attention to elaborating on the new developments in criminal rule of law and the new achievements in criminal law theory since the promulgation of the new Criminal Code of China, in order to enhance the academic level and practical value of the textbook. In addition to the preface, the textbook is divided into two parts: the first part is General Principles of Criminal Law, which systematically and in-depthly discusses the basic principles of criminal law and the general norms of criminal law in the fields of general criminal law and general criminal punishment; the second part is Specific Crimes, which discusses macro issues of specific crimes and elaborates on the common issues of the ten categories of crimes stipulated in the current Criminal Code of China, as well as the criminal norms and theoretical issues of each crime, with varying levels of detail based on the needs of theory and practice, with clear priorities.