Extremism In Our Criminal Law

In August 29 2015,the ninth amendment to the criminal law get passed in the sixteenth meeting of the Twelfth National People’s Congress Standing Committee, extremism as a new concept, officially boarded the stage of criminal law in China. In fact it is not fresh concept, because scholar get in research of extremism for a long time.It’s just begin in China. It’s imperative that extremism is included in the criminal regulation in the face of extremism crime situation. However because of the majesty and widespread of the law, judicial officers should have a clear recognized and deeper understanding of the law no matter from the legislative point of view or from the perspective of justice. Then how to understand the extremism of the ninth amendment to the criminal law? What kinds of extremism of the criminal law regulation? What is the relevance and the difference of extremism, terrorism and separatism?The above problems are need to be solved, I think the first is to find out the meaning of extremism in order to solve the problems. There isn’t a unified understanding of definition of the extremism concept at home and abroad. Since many scholars can not be accurately defined, that I have not dare to jump to conclusions. Therefore, I attempt to present the general content and characteristics of extremism to the readers from literal meaning and understanding of the extremism of the ninth amendment to the criminal law. In order to understand the meaning of the extremism of the ninth amendment to the criminal law.In order to understand of the meanings of the extremism of the ninth amendment to the criminal law, it’s separately listed the provisions of extremism in Foreign-related laws. Finally, it’s emphasized that the departing of the personal or organizational values of the extremism, extremes and violence of the extremism expression, the harm to the society by extremism. Which is based on definition of the concept of extremism in Combating Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism Shanghai Convention that is signed by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Shanghai.( Which is based on definition of the concept of extremism in the Shanghai Convention that is signed by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Shanghai on the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism.)Furthermore, starting from the current domestic situation, it’s divided into two categories for mainly extremism of the criminal law, namely political extremism and religious extremism. Because the more studies on the two kinds of extremism, I will describe the origin and characteristics of the two extremist in order to better understand and distinguish which is based on the study from the basic research of domestic and foreign scholars.Finally, it’s compare researched on the extremism, terrorism and separatism because of the similarity and association of the three concepts. Through the comparison we can see that the extremism is the upper Law compared to the terrorism, terrorism is contained in extremism but extremism will not necessarily develop into terrorism. There are specific factors for separatism generation, which behavior is demonstrated in the form of extremism, but it’s relatively independent between the concept of separatism and extremism.In view of the extremism has just appeared in the criminal law of the People’s Republic of China, there is no relevant case for analysis at present. So there is no real support for the most of the arguments in this article and it’s only limited to a shallow level for the comparison. I will feel great appreciation that the contents of this article can be theoretical referenced for extremism recognized for judicial officers.