Research On Environmental Crime Penalties

Since the 30 anniversary of the reform and opening up, China's economic development has made remarkable achievements, the people's living standards have markedly improved from 1978 to 2006, the rapid expansion of China's economic aggregate gross domestic product growth from 364.5 billion yuan to 21.0871 trillion yuan, an increase of nearly 60 times! China's economic achievements have not only written on Chinese history, world history is something which is also a brilliant page in the past 25 years, the achievements of the global income poverty, nearly 70% of the success attributed to China! However, the vanity behind we are paid a heavy price, that is an increasingly serious environmental problems. With the rapid economic development.The concept of environmental protection have been driven by the interests of ever-expanding engulfed by the growing environmental damage, environmental crime after another, the consequences of atmospheric pollution, the degradation of grasslands, rivers and forests of the dry death. In some remote rural areas, environmental crime is rampant, the limited mineral resources have been wanton squandering precious and endangered wild animals have been mercilessly mutilation. If the environmental crimes no longer receive the effective prevention and timely correction, we have created all the wealth is bound to be ruined, and left on Earth.Be the last drop of water will be our tears of remorse. Therefore, how to adopt various means to protect the environment, fight against environmental crime is of common concern to countries in the world problem, the penalty effective measures for solving this problem will play a crucial role.For a long time, although China has all along been committed to environmental crime crackdown, however many aspects to predisposing factors are causing environmental crime is still not optimistic. Of course lead to frequent environmental crime because many, but the defects of the penal sanction but also to blame. There's no denying at this stage of China's environmental crime of sanctions and, to some extent also has many unpleasant place:in a fine way too much emphasis in the property and the use of punishment, qualification of scope too narrow, detention and punishment of the crime of disappearance, Unit related punishment simple, non-punishment of contempt and the repeated criminal punishment applicable ambiguous are environmental criminal punishment of "soft". Therefore, this article has extensive experience in foreign countries and China-Hong Kong and Taiwan regions environment in the field of criminal penalties proposed at this stage, the perfection of environmental crime penalties of humble, including on the perfection of the penalty system, increased criminal penalties, on non-punishment methods applicable and distinguish different penalties for subsequent offences, the principle of hope for effective in combating environmental crime, protection of environment lands.