What is the sentencing standard for the crime of harboring and how is it determined?

Article 310 of my country's Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who knowingly provides a hiding place or property to a criminal or provides perjury to cover it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to Fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Anyone who commits the crime in the preceding paragraph and conspires in advance shall be punished as an accomplice.

Article 362 stipulates that if personnel from hotels, catering services, cultural entertainment industries, taxi industries and other units tip off criminals when the public security organs are investigating and handling prostitution activities, the circumstances are serious. , shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 310 of this Law.

It should be noted that the serious circumstances here mainly refer to harboring and sheltering multiple people; harboring or sheltering multiple times; harboring and sheltering criminals with extremely serious crimes, etc.

For different crimes, there are clear sentencing standards in the criminal law. As for the sentencing standard for the crime of harboring, the general situation introduced above is fixed-term imprisonment of less than three years, criminal detention or surveillance; but if the crime is serious, the penalty will be between 3 and 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment.

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From the perspective of maintaining the effective exercise of national judicial power, it is undoubtedly necessary. However, the law must be people-centered. Only when the edifice of the law is rooted in human nature will it not be in danger of overturning.

It is human nature to protect your loved ones. Parents often risk their lives to protect their children. If it is the crime of shielding or sheltering one's parents, it is a disregard for and trampling on human nature. Moreover, the purpose of enacting laws is to make citizens obey the laws, not to punish them, but to criminalize such behavior. You must know that it is impossible to expect parents not to harbor or cover up their children who commit crimes.

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