Greater Consummates Our Country The Elderly Crime Punishment Exploerd

In our country has stepped into an aging society. As the aging populationincreasing, the number of elderly offenders are also increasing. Elderly offenders as aspecial social group, is the attention of society, the elderly crime problem also graduallybecome the focus of controversy. On February25,2011, the11th National People’sCongress standing committee deliberated and adopted at the19th meeting of the"criminal law amendment (eight)" of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafterreferred to as the "criminal law amendment (eight)"), for the first time for the old crimehas carried on the clear rules, which not only has a solid theoretical basis, in line withthe trend of The Times, at the same time also accord with the reality of social needs.Greater the elderly crime punishment in accordance with China’s historical tradition, thehumanitarianism of criminal law and punishment of the principles of individualizeddemands, it is the embodiment of our criminal policy of tempering justice with mercy,purposeful and economical penalty may reasonably require.Admittedly, older people greater crime legislation content still is not perfected,faced with many problems to be solved in practice. Should perfect our legislation, makeclear a regulation: the elderly crime careful measures to arrest, has decided not toprosecute, specify the right to defend, relax for executing criminal punishments, clearthe elderly do not constitute recidivist, ease elderly offenders for the conditions forcommutation or parole. Perfect the relevant supporting measures, namely, to establishand perfect the old social security system, build suitable for the old cultural activities,etc. In order to make our country the elderly crime is from the implementation of thesystem can be more effective.