On The Protection Of Animals In Criminal Law

The animal protection legislation in many countries have been quite robust and theirimplementation has also done very well. China has very little legislation on animalprotection, and most of the law which has established is to protect endangered wildlife.Thepractical utility of the this law is still week. For some has reached a certain severity ofviolations of animal welfare act, need to be adjusted by the criminal law in order to promoteanimal welfare and human development.The first part of this paper, starting from the animals themselves, combing the animals in thenatural sciences and law concepts and classifications for the classification of animals face topave the way. Talk and thus the value of the animal itself has introduced the need for animalprotection, and the protection of animals but also economic development, social stability andsocial management needs. The second part of the paper describes the basis of the criminallaw to protect animals in the first part of the theory. First comes the concept of criminal lawprotection of animals, the animals have a basic understanding of the criminal law protection;further discussions on the theoretical and practical significance of the object of criminal lawprotection of animals and animal Criminal Protection has. The third part of the paper fromour own situation, analyzes the background of China’s criminal legislation to protect animals,the current situation and existing problems. Through the analysis of the historicaldevelopment of animal protection and to clarify the actual situation of China’s animalprotection legislation is a possibility of criminal and necessity. Re-introduced to classify ourcurrent criminal legislation against animal, and then found by inadequate legislation existswildlife and non-wildlife. The fourth part focuses on the UK, U.S. and German criminallegislation to protect animals, and then summarizes the characteristics of foreign criminalanimal protection legislation, in order to get inspiration for our animal criminal legislation,criminal legislation to improve our animals to pave the way. The fifth paper is based on theexistence of the criminal legislation of animal protection and lack of experience of foreigncriminal legislation on the basis of existing regulations by modifying, additional relatedcharges and punishment to modify the configuration to put forward suggestions forimproving the criminal law of animal protection. Hoping to draw people’s attention to animalprotection, to better promote the harmonious development of humans and animals.