Qin Hanhao Strong Landlord Crime Study

The crime of powerful landlord was a social problem in Qin-Han dynasty.The article study crime of powerful landlord in Qin-Han dynasty,from a angle of social history,introducing methods of crime sociology and connecting with historical background of social changes of the period of Spring and Autumn and Warring states.The period of Qin-Han dynasty,have following social changes of the Spring and Autumn period and the period of Warring states,The crime of powerful landlord become a serious social question.According to dissimilarity of the object on witch crime of powerful landlord encroach,its crime activities into three type:The crime of Breaking economic order:Annexing farmland and possessing courtyard beyond rules, Sheltering person,Conceal property to escape the taxes and levies,Enslaving peasant. The crime of Disturbing social order:Damaging local feudal social order,Indulging the clansmen and guests as robber,Revenge.The crime of Endangering governmental rule:Treason felony,Misprision,Seizing prisoner,Oganizing the private armed forces.To control the crime of powerful landlord,government adopt a loose politics and economic policy in the early Han Dynasty.The crime of powerful landlord become grave social problem in the Emperor Wudi of Han dynasty.The Wudi change former inactivity policy,restrain powerful landlord from politics and economic aspect.Though the policy inhibited temporarily powerful landlord,but unable solve completely the question.In medium and later of the Western Han Dynasty,government have adopted Confucianism civilizing and choose policy.Under the stick and carrot of policy,the landlord has to tyrannically change,turn to study Confucian classics and enter into government,turn around literati and officialdom.The Eastern Han Dynasty had been builded under support of powerful landlord,they had became ruling basis.On economy,the Eastern Han Dynast admitted the big land ownerships,person relations of dependence and manor economy;On culture,revere highly confucianism,powerful landlord become Confucianism-rization;On politics,the landlord has controlled election.In such circumstances,Landlord economy develops tyrannically,classics aristocratic family,and control official career,become the nobleman.The crime of powerful landlord had affected the Qin-Han Dynasty's economy, politics and the social class relates.In economic aspect,corrodes the land-holding peasant economy,offends national the economic policy,affect the commodity economy.In political aspect,intervenes the local organs of state power administration, destruction politics and the legal regime,harasses the place public security,even threatens the centralization rule.In social class aspect,causes the land-holding peasant to go bankrupt,the farmer to strengthen to the powerful landlord's attachment relations.Based on the above-mentioned researches,crime of powerful landlord totally had the four features:The first,the criminal had new contents.The second,criminal society endanger was comparatively serious.The third,criminal development situation gradually weakened.The fourth,some criminal activities gradually became legitimate.