The Ideas On Crime Prevention In Pre-Qin Period

As a kind of penal policies and theories with early origin, crime prevention is a fundamental counter measure adopted to counter crime. No matter which kind of society it is, crime prevention is always its focus. There is no doubt that only when the problem of crime prevention has been solved, one country can be stabilized, one government can be consolidated and then the whole society can develop. China has a long history of crime prevention, containing various contents. It's an important composition of world law culture inheritance. In my opinion, if we want to get the just idea of China ancient times' ideas on Crime prevention, we must start from Pre-Qin Period, though there was no exact expression of it at that time. However, preventing crime by all means and ways was considered then. So it can be said that all kinds of research, discussion and recognizant behaviors to prevent crimes, which carried by the political rulers and the thinkers of that time, through all aspects, levels and angles, were the ideas on crime prevention at that time.This paper would introduce those precious remains of our Ancestors along with the development of history. It will give a brief presentation on the origin of crime prevention in the late period of the primitive society, the ideas on crime prevention in the name of "destiny" and "holly right" at Xia and Shang periods, and the ideas in the center of "moral and civil policies "at Xizhou period . On one hand, aims at eliminating the wrong ideas on the origin of china crime prevention, wanting to point out that the ideas on crime prevention has long been existing, even the sprout of it can be dated back to as early as yao and shun periods in the primitive society . On the other hand, trying to find out its process of emerging and developing vertically, in order to expound its basic features and broad containing, and then, in a further sense, pointing out that the sprout and development of them has great effect on the late period, in addition to that society eventually. There's much in their ideas that we can make use of today.