Collection of the Annual Conference of Chinese Criminal Law (Volume 2: 2004 Annual, Upper and Lower)

Author: Chen Xingliang, Hu Yunting, Editors
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The 2004 Annual Meeting of the Criminal Law Research Society of the China Legal Science Society was held in Beijing from September 9 to 11, 2004. After the conclusion of the criminal law annual meeting, the participating representatives would also attend the 17th Congress of the International Society of Criminal Law, which was scheduled for September 12 in Beijing. Therefore, this year's annual meeting was one of the most prestigious meetings in the 20-year history of the Criminal Law Research Society of the China Legal Science Society. To align the criminal law annual meeting with the 17th Congress of the International Society of Criminal Law, after the Standing Council of the Criminal Law Research Society studied and reported to the China Legal Science Society for approval, the theoretical topic of this year's annual meeting was the reform and improvement of the death penalty system. The death penalty is a current social issue, and how to limit the death penalty and gradually create conditions for its abolition in the future requires research from a legal perspective first. The criminal law annual meeting this year has chosen the reform and improvement of the death penalty system as its theoretical topic, demonstrating the concern of the criminal law academia in China regarding the death penalty issue. From the papers on the death penalty in the collection, various perspectives on the death penalty system are explored, including issues such as the transfer of the review power of the death penalty to the Supreme People's Court, and various original insights are presented. It can be said that these are cutting-edge research achievements of China in the field of the death penalty. The practical topic of this year's annual meeting, primarily considering alignment with the 17th Congress of the International Society of Criminal Law, was determined as the following five aspects:
1. Corruption-related crimes
2. Intellectual property infringement crimes
3. Cyber crimes
4. Juvenile delinquency
5. Trafficking in women and children
Among these topics, international criminal law content is involved, including research on the international punishment and prevention of juvenile delinquency, international anti-corruption crimes, international anti-trafficking in women and children crimes, and international anti-cyber crimes. Some of these topics are traditional ones, and the criminal law academia in China has conducted relatively in-depth research on them in the past; others are new issues, such as cyber crimes, which require forward-looking discussions. From the papers on criminal law practice issues in the collection, most are able to conduct theoretical analysis with depth and originality based on judicial practice, reflecting the latest academic research achievements of the criminal law academia in China in these fields.
The original deadline for the criminal law annual meeting was June 30, 2004, but it was postponed to July 10 due to various reasons. Although we made every effort to ensure that the papers for this year's annual meeting could be published in a two-volume, four-book format, we were still unable to include all submitted papers. Therefore, during the editing process, in addition to the papers of the Society's council members, we had to reluctantly exclude other submitted papers and select the best ones. The selected papers are generally based on the principle of one paper per author. Here, we sincerely thank the authors whose papers were not included in this collection for their enthusiastic attention and sincere support for the annual meeting. It is precisely the existence of this group of authors who were not selected that demonstrates the prosperity of criminal law research in China.
According to the agenda of this year's annual meeting, the 2004 annual collection of papers is divided into two volumes: Volume I: Research on the Death Penalty Issue; Volume II: Research on Practical Issues. Due to space constraints, each volume is divided into two parts. Such a scale of annual meeting collection has never been seen before.
This annual meeting paper collection was edited under the guidance of the Criminal Law Research Society of the China Legal Science Society, with Chen Xingliang, Vice President of the Society and Professor at the Peking University Law School, and Hu Yunting, Vice President of the Society and Deputy Director of the Research Office of the Supreme People's Court, as the chief editors. Fang Genlin, Deputy Secretary-General of the Society and Associate Professor at the Peking University Law School, was specifically responsible for the editing. Participating in the editing were Fu Liqing, a doctoral student at the Peking University Law School, and Ji Liji, a master's student at the Peking University Law School, among others. Fang Peng, Lei Liqing, and Lü Yaping were responsible for the English translation.