Research On Malfeasance Crimes Concerning Forestry

Malfeasance Crime is a kind of serious crime, which not only directly does harm to normal activities of state agencies, imperils the government's prestige, impairs the trust that the public delivers to government official for their impersonality and impartial, but also brings damage to common property and benefit of state and the people. And malfeasance crime concerning forestry is a common malfeasance crime. In recent years, offenders commit crimes in field of forestry resources because our country attaches increasing importance to zoology construction and forestry development and the investment for forestry construction rises very rapidly. The shortage of ground resource results in rigid supervision which also leads offenders to commit crimes in field of forestry resources. Therefore, the malfeasance crime concerning forestry arises frequently and becomes the most frequent malfeasance crime. Malfeasance crime concerning forestry disturbs the order of forestry administration and plays havoc with forest resource. Malfeasance crime concerning forestry also brings great economy loss and destroys the zoology badly.The paper investigates the collectivity of malfeasance crime concerning forestry in Hunan Province and compares the malfeasance crime concerning forestry with the malfeasance crime concerning state ground resource and the malfeasance crime concerning environment protection. We find that there are characteristics in the malfeasance crime concerning forestry, such as concentrated crime name, main body from grass roots, crime activities frequent, lightly punishment and profit motivation. The paper analyzes three typical cases of the malfeasance crime concerning forestry and reveals the malfeasance crime concerning forestry often occurs in the fields of granting forest fell license, fell design, forest fell administration, timber traffic, woodland requisition, dealing with crime cases concerning forestry, routine supervision, putting out forestry compensation fund, etc. The offenders often commit corruption, bribery and defalcation when they carry out malfeasance crime activities. There are many reasons for the malfeasance crime concerning forestry, such as incomplete legal system, low quality of tipstaff, rough mechanism of forestry administration, centralization power, absence of effective supervision, inadequate punishment, etc. It is important to take measures to prevent and punish the malfeasance crime concerning forestry. Firstly, it is necessary to enhance the incorrupt education and perfect the legal system. Secondly, we should improve the working condition of forestry station and the welfare of tipstaff, and solve the staff post and working outlay so as to consummate the forestry administration system. Lastly, it is necessary to enhance the degree of punishment of the malfeasance crime concerning forestry and to improve the supervision system. Taking such measures will help to prevent and restrain the malfeasance crime concerning forestry, make for forest resource protection, and will push the construction of resource-saving and environment-friendly society.