The object of crime is one of the constitutive elements of crime, which refers to the social relations protected by criminal law and violated by criminal acts. Determining the object of a crime can, to a great extent, determine what kind of crime is committed and the degree of its harm. If the perpetrator infringes on the social relations not protected by criminal law, but by civil law or administrative law, this kind of behavior cannot constitute a crime, and the perpetrator bears civil or administrative responsibility instead of criminal responsibility. The reason why crime is harmful to society is first determined by the criminal object it infringes. If an act does not infringe on any object or social relations, there will be no social harm and it will not constitute a crime. the object of a crime is an essential element of a crime. There is no crime without the object of crime. The reason why crime is harmful to society is first determined by the criminal object it infringes. An act that doesn't infringe any object and social relations means that it doesn't have social harm and can't constitute a crime.
In criminal law, criminal objects are usually divided into three types, namely, general objects, similar objects and direct objects. These three kinds are different levels summarized according to the scope of social relations violated by crime, which are the relationship between general and special, whole and part.
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Legal basis:
Article 2 of the Criminal Law The tasks of the Chinese people and the national criminal law are: to safeguard national security, safeguard the people's democratic dictatorship regime and the socialist system, fight against all criminal acts, apply penalties, protect state-owned property and property collectively owned by working people, protect citizens' private property, protect citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights, and maintain social and economic order.