What is criminal responsibility?

Criminal responsibility is the abbreviation of criminal legal responsibility, which means that criminals should bear legal responsibility according to criminal law because they commit criminal acts. Criminal responsibility includes principal punishment and supplementary punishment. The criminal responsibility of criminals means that they should be punished accordingly. The concrete manifestation of criminal responsibility is that criminals have the obligation to accept the trial and punishment of judicial organs such as public security, procuratorate and court. According to the provisions of China's criminal law: those who intentionally commit crimes shall bear criminal responsibility; Negligent crime, only those who are prescribed by law bear criminal responsibility.

First, does not bear criminal responsibility mean innocence?

Not assuming criminal responsibility does not mean innocence. A criminal suspect can be exempted from criminal responsibility because of minor circumstances, small amount and young age, but it also constitutes a crime. Criminal responsibility refers to the legal responsibility that criminals should bear because of criminal acts, and legal responsibility shall be investigated according to the provisions of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), including principal punishment and supplementary punishment. According to the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), any act that endangers national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, splits the country, subverts the people's democratic dictatorship, overturns the socialist system, disrupts social and economic order, infringes on state-owned property or property collectively owned by working people, infringes on citizens' private property, infringes on citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights, and other acts that endanger society are crimes, but the circumstances are obviously minor.

Second, is it illegal to help people commit crimes without knowing it?

Subjectively, if there is no intention or negligence, it does not constitute any crime. Although the act objectively caused damage, it was not caused by intention or negligence, but by irresistible or unpredictable reasons, which did not constitute a crime. According to the criminal law, knowing that one's actions will have harmful consequences to society and hoping or letting such consequences happen is a deliberate crime and constitutes a crime. Whoever intentionally commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility. It is a crime of negligence to foresee that one's behavior may have harmful consequences to society, but not because of negligence, or to think that it can be avoided because it has been foreseen. Negligent crime, only those who are prescribed by law bear criminal responsibility. Intentional crime committed by two or more persons is the same crime. * * * The same crime must have the same criminal intent. Cognitive factors of accomplices: each accomplice not only realizes that he is committing a crime, but also realizes that other accomplices are jointly committing the crime with himself in * * * *; All * * * accomplices realize that the combination of their own behavior and others' * * * accomplices will lead to harmful results to society, and realize the causal relationship between their own * * * accomplices and their own * * accomplices.

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Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 14 Whoever knows that his actions will have consequences that will harm society and hopes or allows such consequences to happen, which constitutes a crime, is a deliberate crime.

Whoever intentionally commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility.

Article 15 It is a crime of negligence to foresee the possible consequences of one's actions that will harm society, but fail to foresee them due to negligence, or think that such consequences can be avoided because they have been foreseen.

Negligent crime, only those who are prescribed by law bear criminal responsibility.