Abstract

This textbook is one of teaching materials on the core course of legal studies major for the State Higher Educational Institutions oriented that the Ministry of Education has organ-ized to turn in the direction of the 21st century.This teaching material is provided for un-dergraduate students of legal studies at higher educational institutions.

Criminal Law is an important course in the legal studies education of higher education-al institutions.This material meets the requirements of the core courses in the legal science education of higher educational institutions,as it illustrates the basic theory and knowledge of Chinese criminal law and emphasizes the scientific,systematic,comparatively stable and modern society features of contents.Especially,in order to comply with the demands of ad-justing to Chinese opening policy and building the socialist state of rule of law,it attaches great importance to illustration of the new developments of criminal rule of law and new a-chievements of criminal law research since promulgation of the s new Criminal Code to up-grade higher academic standards and applicative value of textbooks.

Besides the preface,this teaching material is divided into two parts：Part One is the general provisions of Criminal Law,which discusses systematically and thoroughly both the basic principles of the Criminal Law,such as the general survey of the Criminal Law,gen-eral provisions of crimes and punishments,and criteria of the general provisions of Criminal Law.Part Two discusses the common issues of ten sorts of crimes regulated in the specific provisions of the current Criminal Law of China and the standards and theoretical issues of each type of crime chapter by chapter,on the basis of macro issues concerning the specific provisions of Criminal Law.According to theoretical and practical needs,the discussions of the concrete crimes are detailed in some places,concise in others and hence well focused.