Shangyang Crime Prevention And Its Modern Values

Shang Yang thinks that the human nature's seeking fame and wealth is always the same, which is the subjective reason causing crime. Prosperous country and vast civil power make people live luxuriously and licentiously. On the base of nation, Shang Yang thinks that it is necessary for them to consume the increasing strength among people by warfare and transfer the factors causing crime from their own country to other countries.The means of crime prevention, Shang Yang thinks, are to encourage common people to cultivate by profit leading and to supervise each other. The law should be popularized and the people should abide by the law of their own. In order to prevent government officials from commiting crimes, Shang Yang analyses the drawbacks of "supervisory system from its own", and he holds that the key to supervise effectively is the interest contradiction from superviser and supervisee.Shang Yang uses cruel penalty to compel potential offender psychology. Nevertheless Shang Yang must ignore the social property, abandon moral principles, and bring about penalty abusing which exceeds common people's endurance.On the background of making money in market, we should use penalty and morality to bring increasing corruption under control. In order to prenvent our young officials from corruption, our ideological and political education should break through the etiquettes, forecast negative thoughts of young officials and we should perfect the early warning mechanism of ideological and political education.