Residential surveillance is the issue of the most problems and disputes among the five coercive measures stipulated in China's criminal law, the study of which is of significant value. This paper clarifies the basic meaning, traits, characteristics, and functions of residential surveillance system, and makes comparison and contract on the historical reform and development of the system with the relative legislations of other countries or regions; analyses the problems and roots of such problems existing in the legislative practice of the surveillance; demonstrates the reasonability of residential surveillance system and the significance of related litigation. Based on such efforts and as far as the practical needs for criminal litigation is concerned, this paper has made a preliminary probe into the perfection of the residential surveillance system.
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