A Study On The Jugao System Of Song Dynasty

Jugao is the action that somebody who know the crime offer crime clue to judicial departments. Jugao is one of important forms that people supervise, disclose crime, and it is one of rule means of the regnant class .The time when the Jugao system came into being is very early. In Song Dynasty the Jugao system developed very fast. The Jugao law of Song Dynasty is more developed than preceding dynasties, the scope of Jugao is larger than before. In Song Dynasty, the scope of Jugao includes politics, economy, culture, and so on. At the same time, the Jugao right of servitors was enlarged, the restriction of family was broadened. Song government also took measures to protect revelator. Jugao forms of Song Dynasty were various. According to different crimes, Song government's demands were different. Some crimes, the government permitted people to Jugao voluntarily, some crimes, the government encouraged people to Jugao, some crimes the government forced people to Jugao. People can Jugao to close institution, to tiptop governor, and so on. People can Jugao in oral, also can Jugao in paper. People can Jugao by himself, also can ask somebody to Jugao. Song government often prized the people who Jugao crime. Prize was official position, glory, money, goods, or relieving punishment. In order to ensure the decree of prize to been brought into effect, Song government set down detailed criterion. Song government encouraged people to reveal crime, in the same time, Song government took measures to restrict people Jugao what is not good for its dominion. Song government's policies of Jugao suppressed crimes, and maintained society stability; at the same time it developed the ethos of revealing others'privacy, and caused a lot of false cases. The development of Jugao system in Song Dynasty was due to the especial circumstances of Song Dynasty.