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Criminal law completes a new round of major revisions to adjust the age of criminal responsibility
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 26 (Reporters Luo Sha and Liu Shuo) The 24th meeting of the Standing Committee of the XIII National People’s Congress voted on the 26th to approve the Criminal Law Amendment (11), a total of 48 articles, aimed at minors. Crime, prevention and control of epidemics, chaos in the financial market and other pending issues that concern the population, criminal law has been revised and improved. The Amendment to the Criminal Law (11) will enter into force on March 1, 2021.
The amendment adjusts the relevant provisions on the age of criminal responsibility, stipulating that persons who have reached the age of 12 and under 14 shall commit the crime of intentional homicide, intentional injury, cause death or cause serious injury by particularly cruel means and cause disability serious. If the People’s Prosecutor approves the prosecution, it will assume criminal responsibility.
“This amendment adheres to the principle of juvenile crimes, education is the main focus and punishment is complemented, combined with the characteristics of juvenile offenders, taking into account the feelings of the victim and society, and it is clear that crimes against young people cannot just be ‘Once you close it, you can’t just let it go. So a very careful, very restrictive and conditional adjustment has been made,’ said Wang Aili, director of the Criminal Law Office of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
The amendment strengthens the criminal protection of public health, amends the crime of obstruction of the prevention and control of infectious diseases, and also clarifies that the new coronary pneumonia and other infectious diseases that are determined by law to adopt measures for the management of infectious diseases class A fall within the scope of this crime; in conjunction with the Biosafety Law, it adds illegal provisions. Participating in the editing of human genes, embryo cloning crimes, crimes that seriously endanger the security of the country’s human genetic resources, and crimes of illegal elimination of invasive alien species.
In order to prevent and deactivate financial risks, the amendments intensify the punishment of securities crimes, increase the penalties for crimes of fraudulent issuance of stocks and bonds, crimes of illegal disclosure and crimes of non-disclosure of important information ; The maximum regulatory penalty for the crime of absorption of public deposits has been increased from 10 years in prison to 15 years; Acts of collecting illegal debts are severely punished and acts of using violence and “soft violence” to collect debts generated by usury are criminalized; improve Money Laundering Crimes, intensify efforts to prosecute stolen and stolen goods abroad, and clearly define “self-laundering” after some serious crimes as a crime.
In addition, the amendments intensified the punishment for sexual assault of minors, focused on the crackdown on drug “black workshops,” and included throwing objects at heights, grabbing flyers from buses, and “posing as universities” in the criminal law to severely punish crimes of infringement of intellectual property rights. , Severely punish the crimes of environmental pollution.
