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Study Of Crimination For Moral Obligation Breaches

Posted on:2006-06-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L N JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360152985001Subject:Law
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There are arguments regarding legislation for moral obligations in the frame of criminal law. While the criminal law is the strictest law which regulates and constrains the behavior of individuals, a slight adjustment of criminal codes will have significant effects on the society. Therefore, before any new conducts are brought up to be regulated by the Criminal Law, the feasibility should be cautiously demonstrated both theoretically and practically. Otherwise, an arbitrary introduction of criminal article will have inestimable negative influence on individuals, and impair the stabilization and healthy development of the society.  Before composing this article, a survey targeting this argument was designed and data were collected and studied. On the premise of decentralizing sample diversity, best effort was done by the author to accomplish the investigation( Please check the appendix for details). If the survey questionnaire was designed in a more efficient way and more samples were collected, the feedback information would have been much clearer and would have offered a more scientific result. However, some critical issues were suggested in the feedback and reasonable conclusions were made through the analysis of feedback results.  In this essay, the controversial subject, whether" Looking on Unconcerned to Others' Danger" (LOUTOD) should be defined as a crime, is studied as an example of legislation for moral obligations. In order to fully examine the feasibility of enabling "LOUTOD" in China, the case has been looked at carefully from the angles of ethnical, as well as jurisprudence,criminal jurisprudence and Comparative Law.   Besides, the most important contribution of this work is the introduction of "Twice Lawbreaking" (TL) theory. Simply, if a behavior doesn't have TL characteristics, meaning if a behavior just violates the general law (Once Lawbreaking) or if it never violates any law, according to "TL" theory this behavior should not be brought into the range of criminal law. Only if the behavior has developed "Once Lawbreaking" and its extent of harm is beyond the scope of general laws, then it can be brought into the criminal area, and becomes the object of the criminal law regulations.  With this theory, I am hoping to introduce a new way to discuss the issue of LOUTOD and to state my opinion and reach a conclusion. More generally, my objective is to introduce a new way to study such similar issues regarding Crimination of Moral Obligations breaching.   In conclusion, the question of whether "looking on unconcerned to others' danger" should be defined as crime is decided by the concrete conditions. We should distinguish different situations while judging LOUTOD. If it has constituted criminal omission, then it should be regulated by corresponding criminal article. If not, then it should only be restrained by moral obligation or the general laws outside criminal law. The suggested law article "Looking on Unconcerned to Others' Danger" should not be set up in China today. I highly suggest being cautious to such kind of Crimination for Moral Obligations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Looking on Unconcerned to Others' Danger, Crimination For Moral Obligation Breaches, Twice Lawbreaking, Criminal Restraint
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