Study Of Drug-related Crimes

Narcotic problem not only induces massive illegal and criminal activities affecting the social stability seriously, but also is often linked with international terrorist group, organized crime organization, problem of corruption, and money laundering crime, etc. It severely impair our country's security and construction of harmonious society, and has become a big public hazard in the world. For a long time, with a highly responsible attitude to our country, nation, people and the world, Chinese government adheres to the standpoint of suppressing drug severely, and has made unremitting efforts in banning narcotic by investing massive human and material resources on it. Influenced by international narcotic flooding and domestic drug-relating elements, narcotic consuming market has been expanding continuously in our country, and more and more kinds of drugs have been abused. The problem of narcotic has emerged the trend of expansion, and its harm has become more and more serious. Because the drug banning institutions is not complete, and drug banning legislation lag behind, the attack on narcotic crime is not effective. The first important step in comprehensively resolving our country's narcotic problem is to strengthen the enforcement of drug banning law and to attack drug-related crime severely by law. Narcotic banning institutions should suppress the drug-related crime based on the status quo and characteristic of our country's drug crime activities. Through analyzing and studying the reason leading to the more serious situation of narcotic crime and the characteristic of narcotic crime, this paper probes the knotty problems in attacking narcotic crimes and proposes the countermeasure on narcotic crimes. Besides the introduction and the conclusion, the full text is divided into four parts. The first part is on concept and characteristic of narcotic crimes. Firstly it introduces the definition of narcotic given by .World Health Organization, and analyses the relation among narcotic, medicine and poison. Narcotic refers to the addictive narcotic and spiritual medicine that is regulated by legislation but illegally used. The paper points out the change of our country's controlling scope on narcotic, analyzes narcotic addictive, hazardous, illegal and valuable nature, and makes the classification of narcotic. Secondly through summarizing the views on the definition of narcotic crimes in criminal law field, the writer explains his own view, and makes the classification ofnarcotic crime. Thirdly the paper analyzes the characteristic of narcotic crime different from that of the general criminal offenses in the respect of human, region, time, evidence and way or means adopted. The second part is on the status quo and reason of narcotic crimes. Firstly it analyzes the outstanding characteristic and reason of the recent international narcotic problem. Secondly it analyzes the recent situation and reason of narcotic in our country. It points out that because of the influence of international narcotic flooding and domestic drug-relating elements, the general trend of the development of narcotic problem has not been changed fundamentally. The situation of banning narcotic is still serious, and the task is still hard. This paper analyzes the reason that narcotic problem emerge again and run wild in China from the point of the world, history, reality, ideology, culture, economy, legal system on drug banning, drug banning institution, work of drug banning, strong addiction of the drug, and the attack on narcotic crime, etc. The third part is on the knotty problem in attacking narcotic crime. Firstly the writer explains his own view on how to confirm consciousness in narcotic crime. Secondly the paper analyzes the difference among the crime of selling, transporting and illegally holding narcotic. Thirdly the paper studies the quantity of narcotic crime and measurement of penalty from eight points. The fourth part is on the countermeasure of narcotic crime. The author points out four countermeasures on narcotic crime based on the situation of drug crime in China and the reality of drug banning. Firstly it is to perfect the legislation on drug banning; secondly it is to strengthen the enforcement of law on drug banning; thirdly it is to implement comprehensive administration; and fourthly it is to promote international cooperation on drug banning.