On The Crime Of Scalping Negotiable Tickets

Reselling at a profit has become a prevalent phenomenon as market economy develops and thrives. Valuable tickets grow, because people need an easier way to make trade efficient in complicated economy activities. Thus, as there is serious unbalanced situations between demand and supply, there will be reselling at a profit that can cause inconvenience to people’s life to a lighter extent, and more serious that can lead national order to a completely chaos causing damage. Based on the reasons above, the criminal law is necessary to regulate some of the reselling activities, to ensure a healthy market economical order. And well-built regulations on reselling activities weigh a lot for whether national market economy develops healthily and orderly. As a result,"Criminal Code" functioning at present in China includes reselling valuable tickets into a crime, which complies to national economic benefit and social development. The thesis focuses on researches about several questions about crimes of reselling fake valuable tickets (mainly on train tickets and ship tickets).The structure of the thesis is as follow:The first part:researches on detailed conceptions about reselling valuable tickets activities. In this part, based on the existed opinions about reselling valuable tickets activities in the academic field, the author discusses his own understandings and affirmation of reselling valuable tickets activities. Besides, the author also differentiates activities between reselling and buying for others.The second part analyzes counterfeiting activities deeply and. This part concentrates on defining "counterfeiting" and differentiating between counterfeiting and alteration and limiting the valuable tickets sphere. According to the analysis, the thesis clarifies the crime of reselling valuable tickets at a profit and objects of counterfeiting activities.The third part discusses about elements comprising crime of reselling valuable tickets and its legal interests. The author analyzes the accomplished and unaccomplished state of this crime, to make sure punishments suit the crimes.The fourth part centralizes the affirmation of the crime of reselling valuable tickets at a profit, after the knowledge of legal interests, composing elements and the crime state of the reselling crime, to guarantee the appropriate way to judge the doers’ reselling criminal activities and to give criminal sanctions to them.The fifth part is about the conclusion based on the analysis above. It also suggests using general provisions of criminal law to analyze specific provisions of criminal law and pointing out research orientation on this field for future study.