Criminal-Legal and Criminological Features of the Prevention of Corruption Crime in the Republic of China in the middle of the second decade of the XXI century

Abstract

Subject of study are the legal and organizational basis of counteraction of corruption crime in the Republic of China and measures for its counteraction. In the process of working on a publication the author uses a set of such General scientific research methods as comparison, analysis, synthesis, and formal-logical, comparative-legal and other methods including: statistical and historical methods. The author attempts to describe the complex of problems of both theoretical and applied nature, related to the functioning and improvement of anti-corruption crime in China. They conducted the analysis of the legal framework, the characteristics of the legal techniques relating to the criminal prohibitions of corruption and number of organizational measures aimed at preventing crimes of corruption. In the process of the study addressed the provisions of existing acts of law-making in the field of combating corruption: the Constitution of the PRC, the criminal code of the PRC, laws and regulations, party and departmental documents. The author comes to the conclusion that criminal and disciplinary sanctions are the most commonly used measures in the fight against corruption worldwide and this feature is most clearly evident in China, where such repressive mechanisms represent the main levers of the fight against the considered phenomenon. The necessity of studying the legislative experience of China in the sphere of counteraction of corruption for its application by the Russian legislator, taking into account national specifics of the domestic legal culture and legal practice. Scientific novelty of research is defined by the system analysis of complex counteraction of corruption crime in China. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the mastery of the positive and negative sides of the experience of combating corruption crime in China can be used in the preparation of information and analytical materials, practical issues, building the system of organizational and managerial work in fighting corruption. Keywords: People’s Republic of China, the merging of crime and power, industrial growth, anti-corruption activities, punishment for corruption, ethical norms, criminal law, legal techniques, crime prevention.