Criminal Law (Second Edition) National Higher Education Core Curriculum Textbook for Law Majors

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 higher education law majors in the 21st century organized by the Ministry of Education. 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 use in undergraduate law programs at universities. Criminal Law is a major core course in higher education law education. This textbook strives to correctly elaborate the fundamental principles and basic knowledge of criminal law in China, emphasizing scientificity, systematicity, relative stability, and contemporary characteristics in its content. Especially to meet the needs of China's reform and opening-up and the construction of a socialist state under the rule of law, the textbook pays great attention to explaining the new developments in criminal legal governance 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-depth discusses the fundamental principles of criminal law and the general norms of the criminal law general principles. The second part is Specific Crimes of Criminal Law, which discusses macro issues of specific crimes of criminal law on the basis of general principles, and elaborates on the common issues of the ten categories of crimes stipulated in the current Criminal Code of China, as well as the crime-punishment norms and theoretical issues of each crime, with detailed and selective discussions based on the needs of theory and practice, with clear priorities.