On Yan Jing Yao’s Thought Of Criminology

Yan JingYao is renowned crimino- logist in 20 ~ 30 s of the 20 th century in our country, he formed its own unique criminology thought by combining their early study in the United States Chicago criminology theory with Chinese social reality at that time and absorbing predecessors’ ideology and culture results.At Yan JingYao’s age, the sociality is undergoing rapid and profound social changes at that time, in the process of this, crime is more and more prominent, which to a certain extent, inspired the Yan JingYao curiosity about the relationship between social change and crime, and prompted him to carry on the field investigation in several cities of our country, then he mastered a lot of reliable information about the crime situation in our country, which not only opened the prelude of empirical research on localization in China, but also provide a lot of useful experience for the research of the crime in China. On crime research, on the one hand, Yan JingYao draw lessons from the United States was more advanced criminal theory and by the theory of marxism, on the other hand, Yan JingYao has received the nourishing of Chinese traditional culture, and on the basis of combining the cultural background put forward original ideas about crime, namely crime is a product of social change, is that people lost their ability to adapt performance of social change in the regime change, the disintegration of the traditional economic system, social constraint failure, so if you want to truly understand the cause of the crime in this period, we must understand how people in this social change under the cultural background of lose their ability to adapt. So, he thought the crime prevention should base on culture background,decreasing the contradiction between people and the change of culture needs. Yan JingYao’s criminology thought is a model of modern criminology in our country, the criminology thought not only had very important influence on the subsequent development of criminology, but also provided a new train of thought for the contemporary crime prevention and control, having important enlightenment function for us to create a good cultural atmosphere from start to study the prevention and control methods of crime, therefore, it is worth us to learn from.