A Research On Several Concerning Applying Non-imprisonment Punishment To Minors

Many countries in the world face a common social problem that the rate of minor crimes rises continuously and the gravity of minor crimes aggravates day by day. The problem of minor crimes in our country increasingly becomes noticeable in recent years. The number of minor crimes climbs year by year. Furthermore, the rising rate of minor crimes is far more greater than that of adult crimes. How to deal with minor crimes has become an urgent problem. Different applications of criminal punishment greatly affect the future lives of minors. That formulating punishment implementation measures such as criteria for convicting and sentencing and the methods of punishment and correction which fit the characteristics of a minor's body and mind and the crime he commits and how to correct a minor in a non-imprisonment free environment is a key issue for the nation to prevent and curb minor crimes from the perspective of a rational society and human care as well as an important symbol to evaluate the development of rule of law and the protection of human rights in a country. The nation's system of non-imprisonment criminal punishment for minors started in a later time because of various reasons. At the moment, there is a relatively large gap between the nation's system and those in the development countries as well as the current situation demand to prevent minor crimes. In order to speed up the construction of the nation's criminal justice system for the minors, taking into the consideration of the current situation, characteristics and reasons of the nation's minor crimes, the essay explores and analyzes the application situation of the nation's non-imprisonment criminal punishment for the minors and the existing problems from various aspects and thereby enunciates the significance and far-sighted conceptions for the nation to further develop and perfect the system of non-imprisonment criminal punishment system for the minors based on the reference to the ripe experience of the developed countries and provides thoughts to fundamentally prevent and decrease minor crimes.