A Study On The Punishment Of Officials In The Early Western Han Dynasty

The officials`punishment system of Western Han Dynasty was based on the system of QinDynasty.It took great effect on punishing officials`illegal act, ensuring the normal operation ofthe government and defending central imperial power. This thesis examines the matter from theprime of Western Han Dynasty to make a systematic investigation and study on reasons, methods,influencing factors and punishment results, characteristics and effect.Firstly, inspect reasons of officials`punishment of prime Western Han. Officials`crimes ofprime Western Han include offence of dereliction of duty, accepting bribes, monopolize power,robbing, document crimes, military crimes, ethics crimes etc. They would be divided into fourparts which are personnel matters, economical matters, matters of duties, matters of law anddiscipline rite.Secondly, classify and summarize the methods of officials`punishment of prime Western Han.The punishment methods include administrative penalty, criminal sanction and other ways whichhave positive effect to the management of officials.Thirdly, reveal influencing factors of Western Han. The matter of officials`punishment systemof prime Western Han is not a solitary matter, and it is affected by officials`check-up system,supervisory system, administration of justice and others. It can be briefly summarized intosystem factors and others.Lastly, summarize the characteristics and effect of prime Western Han. There are manyfeatures such as based on laws, rich measures and nimble punishment. Also the officials`punishment of Western Han Dynasty has great effect, including positive aspect which is mainand negative aspect. In short, the research of the officials`punishment of prime Western HanDynasty plays an important role in history research. The officials`punishment system of WesternHan Dynasty provides a rule to the later ages.