As a traditional crime, booty crime is stipulated in many countries'criminal law stipulation. The previous crime of hiding, transferring, purchasing or selling replaces booties has been revised in Amendments to Criminal Law of PRC (No.6) and was renamed as"the crime of concealing or disguising criminal gains and its profits". The essence of this crime has compound character, that is, it's not only based on the theory of illegal state maintenance, but also has character of infringing on pursuit right. The new amendments increase the other means to conceal and disguise booties to the four traditional ways"harboring, transfer, purchase and sell replaces". Apart from the pawn, auction, mortgage or pay for debt, the other means also includes receive, processes, recommend and trade. Contraband can be the object of this crime. The content of "knowledge" is the cognition of the harm of the crime, including that the object of crime is booty or the profits. The extent of "knowledge" includes the cognition of the object is or may be booties and the profits. Case analogy can be used to assert "knowledge". Unit has been added to the subject of this crime in Amendments to Criminal Law of PRC (No.7).In the administration of justice of this crime, the predicate offenses should be a material crime, but not a crime which accord with constitutive elements of a crime. This crime is in conflict with the crime of money laundering in articles of law, and is similar to the crime of harboring, transferring or concealing drugs or booty drugs and the crime of harboring, shielding. In the legislation of this crime, the scope of subject and the type of behavior have been expanded, and penalties became more severe. Overall, the amendments make the article more and more scientific; make the structure more and more rigid and the crime more and more assort with the punishment. However, there are still some shortcomings, such as the punishment is single.
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