Criminal responsible subject

The subject of criminal responsibility refers to the criminal who should bear legal responsibility for committing a crime. The subject of legal responsibility is investigated in accordance with the provisions of the criminal law, including the main criminal responsibility and the additional criminal responsibility. The subject of criminal responsibility refers to the natural person or unit that commits criminal acts and should bear criminal responsibility.

Legal basis:

"Chinese People's Liberation Army" and the country's "Criminal Law"

Article 17 The age of criminal responsibility is over 16 A person over the age of 10 who commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility. A person who is over the age of fourteen but under the age of sixteen who commits the crime of intentional homicide, intentional injury causing serious injury or death, rape, robbery, drug trafficking, arson, explosion, or throwing dangerous substances shall bear criminal responsibility. . A person who is over 12 years old but under 14 years old and commits the crime of intentional homicide, intentional injury causing death or serious injury causing serious disability, with particularly cruel means and egregious circumstances, shall bear criminal responsibility if the Supreme People's Procuratorate approves the prosecution. A person under the age of 18 who is held criminally responsible in accordance with the provisions of the first three paragraphs shall be given a lighter or reduced punishment. If a person is not subject to criminal punishment because he is under the age of sixteen, his parents or other guardians shall be ordered to discipline him; if necessary, he shall be subject to special discipline in accordance with the law.

Article 17 If a person commits a crime intentionally, a person who has reached the age of criminal responsibility of seventy-five years may be given a lighter or mitigated punishment; if a person commits a negligent crime, he shall be given a lighter or mitigated punishment.

Article 18: Special groups of persons with criminal liability: If a mentally ill person cannot identify or control his behavior and causes harmful consequences, and is confirmed by legal procedures, he shall not be held criminally responsible, but his family members or guardians shall be ordered to Strict supervision and medical treatment; if necessary, compulsory medical treatment by the government. If an intermittent mentally ill person commits a crime while in a sane state of mind, he shall bear criminal responsibility. If a mentally ill person who has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior commits a crime, he shall bear criminal responsibility, but may be given a lighter or reduced punishment. A drunk person who commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility.