Discussion Of The Criminal Responsibility Perfection Of Our Country

With the development in production, technology and economy, and the advance in human capabilities, environmental problems are getting more serious, which has forced many countries to strengthen criminalization and penalization against environmental hazards, including China. Although China is a developing country, Chinese government is always attaching importance to environmental protection, and it has taken effective measures to cope with environmental problems, of which protecting environments by criminal laws is an important part. This paper is to introduce and apply the concepts and characters of criminal responsibilities of environmental protection, to compare China and western countries, and to study the improvement of environmental criminal responsibilities in China, for Chinese socioeconomic sustainable development.There are many factors about the improvement of environmental criminal responsibilities. First, by the concept environmental criminal responsibility, this paper explains the necessity of protecting environments by criminal laws, and introduces the inadequacy in Chinese criminal laws for environmental protection. Second, this paper discusses the theoretical and practical bases of the development in environmental criminal laws, and the correspondence between the theoretical base and environmental criminal laws. Third, this paper compares the modes of environmental criminal legislation in China with those in U.K., U.S., Germany and Japan. It also displays the references to those developed countries' legislation. Finally, this paper offers some suggestions on the improvement of Chinese environmental criminal laws in accordance with theories, institutions and practice. As well, it suggests that it be a good way to improve environmental criminal responsibilities based on the value orientation of criminal laws, theories of environmental crime constitution, etc.