- PII
- S0321-50750000616-3-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S50000616-3-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue №10
- Pages
- 17-24
- Abstract
- The article is devoted to fight of the Chinese state against corruption, to implementing of corruption eradication policy in the system of public authorities. Author analyses the content of existing instruments of law-making, which confirm the existence of Chinese anti-corruption system. The main focus is made on the severity of criminal liability applied to corrupt officials, including life imprisonment and the death penalty, property confiscation and political rights deprivation.The article presents latest statistics of the fight against corruption, examples of law enforcement on the most high-profile corruption cases. The author emphasizes drastic approach of government leadership in the inevitability principle implementation of the legal liability for corruption offenses, regardless of occupied official position in society. At the same time the article indicates deficiencies in the legal regulation of anti-corruption, which are associated with the presence in the Chinese legislation indefinite and vague formulations that facilitate the growth of corruption among Chinese law enforcers.
- Keywords
- corruption, Chinese anti-corruption system, severity of criminal liability, high-profile corruption cases, indefinite and vague formulations in the Chinese legislation
- Date of publication
- 01.10.2015
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 1424