The Study On The Crime Of Gambling

Gambling is a kind of typical traditional dross which has a long history in China. Most of the rulers in history formulated laws against gambling .With the foundation of the People's Democratic regime, the strike on gambling has been greatly strengthened, gambling, which has a history of 3,000 years was once restrained for quite a long time. However, along with the acceleration of the national reform and opening steps, gambling has come to resurgence in some areas. Especially recent years, the criminal gambling with new forms and features such as underground lottery six, net-gambling, abroad gambling, and Corrupting gambling became more and more rampant. All these have caused wide attention from the society, and also brought big challenge to the legislative and justice agencies. The research and provision of the crime of gambling in our present law system is too simple to fit with the criminal gambling nowadays. The backward of legislative can not cooperate with the requirements of striking new forms of criminal gambling . Meanwhile, the legislative defects also cause a lot of controversy and confusions in the practice of justice. Nowadays more and more justice Scholars are considering the decriminalization of criminal gambling behaviors according to the decriminalization thoughts abroad. So it has become a focus that whether to reserve the crime of gambling in our country or not. Just for the consideration of the background situation mentioned above, this dissertation will provide the suggestions of improving the legislation against the criminal gambling based the reality of our own country and the discussion of the decriminalization for gambling, and also consult with the most popular questions and controversial issues referred both in the domestic justice hemisphere and abroad to reach a conclusion that the crime of gambling should be retained.This paper is divided in the following four chapters: Chapter one : The definition of the crime of gambling in law & the outline of the legislative actualities .Chapter two: The illustration that the crime of gambling should be retained based on our national realities with generalizing the views from the two scholar groups .Chapter three: The defects of the present legislation on the crime of gambling. Chapter four: The suggestion on the supplementary of present legislation relating with the legislation overseas.