First, this major is a doctoral degree awarding point.
Second, the professional research direction, research content and training objectives
The main research directions of this discipline are: China criminal law, international criminal law and comparative criminal law, criminology and criminal execution law, criminal policy, etc.
(1) The research contents and training objectives of criminal law in China.
China's criminal jurisprudence focuses on the development and evolution history of China's criminal law, China's basic theory of criminal law, China's criminal law practice, China's criminal law legislation and China's criminal law interpretation. Its training goal is to train senior professionals who are familiar with China's national conditions, proficient in China's criminal law theory and practice, competent in China's criminal law teaching and research, and engaged in China's criminal law practice (criminal trial, criminal prosecution and criminal defense) or criminal law legislation. The basic situation of this research direction is as follows:
(1) Our direction attaches great importance to the development and research of the principles of criminal law, and has successively published Criminal Law, Theory of Criminal Responsibility, Theory of Penalty Value, Theory of Crime Constitution and Its Relationship, Comparison and Construction of Criminal Law Theory, Research on the Modernization of Criminal Law in China, Criminal Intention and Criminal Negligence, and Theory of the Same Crime and Death Penalty. (2) Pay attention to the study of the specific provisions of criminal law in combination with social development and judicial practice, and timely publish the works that are widely valued by the judicial circles, such as Research on Crimes of Disrupting Market Economic Order, Practical Research on the Specific Provisions of Criminal Law (three volumes), Research on New Economic Crimes, and China Criminal Law Case Review (1-2 volumes). (3) Academic research adheres to the integration of theory with practice, and has close contact and cooperation with legislative and judicial organs, so that theoretical research is full of vitality and motivation. (4) The training system for high-level professionals is complete, including post-doctors, doctors, master students, visiting scholars at home and abroad, and senior judges. (5) The academic development momentum is strong, and it can often guide and promote the development of the national criminal law discipline with innovative and weighty academic works and activities.
This direction is the earliest established research direction of criminal law in New China. As early as 1950, graduate students have been enrolled in this direction; 1979 became the first unit in China to recruit postgraduate students majoring in criminal law; 1984 became the first unit in China to award doctoral degrees in criminal law; 1988 was rated as the only national key discipline of criminal law in China; 1992 became the first unit in China to recruit postdoctoral researchers in the field of law; 1999 became the first key research base of humanities and social sciences established by the Ministry of Education-the only national key research base in the field of criminal law "Criminal Law Research Center of China Renmin University". This research direction has maintained a pioneering and leading position in the field of criminal law teaching and research in China for a long time, and has a decisive position in the academic circle of criminal law in China and a certain reputation and influence in the world. The characteristics of this topic also lie in:
(1) Outstanding achievements in teaching and scientific research. China has set up professional courses at the graduate level earlier. Over the past 30 years, he has edited almost all kinds of national criminal law textbooks, published nearly 400 books and published more than 3,000 papers. Scientific research achievements have a wide and important influence throughout the country. (2) The training of high-level talents has achieved remarkable results. Over the past 30 years, 150 doctoral students, 300 master students, 10 postdoctoral students and 400 senior judges have been trained. The trained senior professionals have played an important role in the national political and legal organs and teaching and scientific research units. (3) Participate in national legislation and judicial decision-making. Since the founding of New China, especially in the past 30 years, experts and scholars in this field have directly participated in almost all the criminal legislation work of the country, participated in the research and formulation of a large number of judicial interpretations by the highest judicial organs of the country, and made important contributions to the construction of the national criminal rule of law. (4) It is the honorary president and vice president unit of china law society Criminal Law Research Association, and has played an important role in organizing and leading the Criminal Law Research Association.
(2) Research contents and training objectives of international criminal law and comparative criminal law.
This research direction mainly studies the basic theory of international criminal law and the practice of international courts, including the theory and practice of international criminal procedure law, and studies the criminal legislation and basic theory of criminal law in major countries in the world, providing reference for criminal law theory and criminal justice practice in China. Its training objectives are: mainly to train senior teaching and research talents in international criminal law and comparative criminal law. The basic situation of this research direction:
This direction maintains close cooperation and exchanges with foreign criminal law teaching and research institutions, and is very active in the research fields of international criminal law, foreign criminal law, comparative criminal law and so on; We not only attach importance to the comparative study of criminal law between continental law system and common law system countries, but also pay attention to the comparative study of criminal law between Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in the process of reunification of the motherland. In the research content, it not only pays attention to the evolution of criminal legislation in various countries, but also attaches importance to the development and change of criminal law theory; In terms of research methods, we not only attach importance to the collection and translation of first-hand materials and the use of second-hand materials, but also actively carry out substantive scientific research cooperation with foreign counterparts; Pay attention not only to the accumulation of achievements, but also to the cultivation of talents and team building. Characterized in that:
(1) 1993 10 In June, the first national institute of international criminal law was established, which organized and absorbed more than 50 criminal law scholars from all over the country and actively carried out research on international criminal law and comparative criminal law. In August 2005, the first foreign criminal law college in China was established, and it has established extensive cooperation and exchange relations with criminal law teaching institutions in important countries in the world. (2) Up to now, more than one kind of international criminal law library 10 has been published, as well as a number of important works such as Comparative Criminal Law Research, Global Survey of Financial Crimes, Principles of Foreign Criminal Law, Anglo-American Criminal Law, Comparative Study of Criminal Law between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao and Mainland China, European Criminal Law System and Principles of Criminal Value. At the same time, a large number of monographs such as Philosophy, Behavior, Norms and Criminal Law of Criminal Law, General Theory of Criminal Law, General Theory of Japanese Criminal Law and Various Theories of Japanese Criminal Law have been translated and published, and the criminal codes of two major legal systems 15 important countries have been translated and published. (3) Cooperating with counterparts in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries on the international guiding principles of criminal law, the internationalization of economic crimes and crimes against personal rights and countermeasures, and the results have had a great impact at home and abroad; (4) Being the vice-chairman of the International Criminal Law Association and the chairman of the China Branch, it has played a guiding and organizing role in the national international criminal law circle.
(3) Research contents and training objectives of criminology and criminal execution law.
This direction is an important research direction in the field of criminal law, which is closely related to the research directions of criminal law in China, foreign criminal law, comparative criminal law and criminal policy. This research direction mainly studies the law, causes and countermeasures of crime occurrence and development, studies the basic theory and practical problems of criminal punishment, trains high-level teaching and research talents in criminology and criminal execution law, and senior professionals engaged in crime prevention and criminal punishment execution.
This research direction has undertaken many national, provincial and domestic criminology and criminal execution law research projects, and the corresponding research results are outstanding in theory and operation. Some research results (such as the final result of "Research on Crimes of Migrant Population in Beijing") have attracted the attention of government decision-making departments and are taken as the main basis for formulating relevant plans or systems. At the same time, this direction is also the vice president and executive director of China Criminology Research Association and the vice president of China Prison Society, which plays an important role in the study of criminology and criminal execution law in China. Its specific performance:
(1) Offering criminology and criminal execution law courses for undergraduates and postgraduates, and making them compulsory courses for postgraduates majoring in criminal law; (2) Identify the scholars who are interested in studying criminology and criminal execution law as the main direction among the students who have enrolled in the Master of Criminal Law; (3) To carry out scientific research on theoretical and practical issues related to criminology and criminal execution law. Up to now, a number of influential academic monographs have been published, such as Economic Crime and Crime Change, Crime Statistics, Principles of Criminal Execution Law, Research on Criminal Execution Law, Research on China's Characteristic Prison System, Research on Prison Science, Research on Criminology and Research on Criminal Execution Law.
(4) Research contents and training objectives of criminal policy.
This research direction mainly studies the occurrence and development law of criminal policy and the basic theoretical and practical problems of criminal policy formulation and implementation, with special emphasis on the basic theoretical research of criminal policy in China and the empirical research on how to solve the criminal policy problems in China. Its training objectives are: mainly to train high-level talents in criminal policy teaching and research and senior professionals engaged in criminal policy formulation and implementation. The basic situation of this research direction:
Criminal policy is the soul of the whole criminal law. This discipline has always attached importance to the study of criminal policy, especially in recent 10 years, which has made remarkable achievements and become a new innovative growth point and bright spot of this discipline. This discipline has undertaken a number of important national or provincial topics related to criminal policy, and published a number of influential criminal policy research results, such as China Criminal Policy Research, China Criminal Policy Report (volume 1-3), Criminal Reconciliation in the Context of Harmonious Society, and Criminal Justice Theory. Among them, the national social science fund project "Research on Criminal Policy in China" was obtained by Xiao Yang, former president of the Supreme People's Court. This subject is also a teaching and research unit that offered criminal policy courses to master students and doctoral students earlier in China. Up to now, more than 65,438+00 doctoral dissertations have been completed. The criminal policy direction of this discipline focuses on the latest achievements and development trends of criminal policy research at home and abroad, with special emphasis on discussing and studying criminal policies with China characteristics based on the reality of China, so as to provide theoretical support for the state to formulate and implement scientific and effective criminal policies. In 2007, the discipline held the first large-scale international symposium on criminal policy in China, and now it has established cooperation and exchange relations with more than 10 countries or regions in Europe, Asia and the United States.