On Environmental Crimes

Environmental crime is the issue arouse the highly attention of the global currently. As the world's famous"factory", the problems of environmental damages and pollutions that follow by the growth of economic in China could not be ignored even more. However, compares to the advance and the effective of the criminal law regulation of environmental crime in developed industrial countries, the criminal legislation in environmental crime of China still has some shortages in theory and practice. In the view of above reasons, this article firstly compares the different views of Chinese and foreign scholars to explain the conception of environment and environmental crime, and describes the characteristics of environmental crime briefly. Secondly, the article takes Japan, Germany, Britain and the United States for example to introduce the legislative features and trends of environmental crime regulation in foreign. Thirdly, the article focus on discuss the controversial issues that exist in environmental crime, and clarify the feasibility and restriction of apply the deduction causality principle,introduced the strict liability and established the potential damage offense in our country. Finally, in summary, the article points out the inadequacies that exist in our criminal law regulation of environmental crime and proposes the corresponding improvement recommendations.