The Legal Regulation Of Gambling Behavior

Gambling behavior is not only against living habits of obtaining wealth or ethics,but also causing significant loss for personal property, even inducing the occurrence ofother crimes. So our country always crack down on gambling behavior. However, on thelegal level, our country’s regulation of gambling behavior is hierarchical. In recent yearswith the development,using network gambling or opening casino emerge constantly,and this also put forwards new problem for applicable law about gambling regulation.At first, this paper explores the concepts of ‘gambling’, pointing out threecharacteristics of gambling: the purpose, the chance,and the property. Only have thesethree characteristics constitute the legal gambling behavior, otherwise,it is just a kind ofrecreational activities.On this basis, the paper probes into the present situation ofgambling in the Asia-Pacific region and the relationship with gambling activities inChina. The purpose of analyzing the present situation of gambling in the Asia-Pacificregion is that gambling industry development in these areas have close relations, andunderstanding the present situation of gambling will also help us to strengthen the legalregulation of Chinese gamblers action. From these areas of gambling industry,thissituation has shifted from past underground to the ground. Especially, gamblingrevenue becoming the main source of tax revenue,the rise of the gambling industry tosome extent also lead to the development of the national economy. And gamblingactivities in our country has a trend to develop towards outside. Especially the rise andflood of network gambling, but also brings much inconveniences. Therefore, the paper’sfourth part specifically discusses the status quo of Chinese online casino,characteristicsand the problem of legal regulation. The number of online casino involvingnumerous,broad region,huge amount,and the same time mixed overseas gamblingsites to the penetration in China, this easy to cause or derived a series of other crimes. For the present situation of gambling industry around our country and thecharacteristics of domestic gambling activities, the paper is divided into two parts toexplore the legal regulation for gambling problem. Firstly,exploring the administrativelaw and regulations about gambling behavior. The law of Punishing Public Securitywhich is newly enacted stipulates clearly the problem of gambling illegal punishmentcommonly. Secondly, exploring the question about gambling crime of criminal law. Inthis section, our country criminal law crime and online gambling crime behavior’s typeand content are detailed introducted and analysised, especially in the light of criminallaw regulation of internet gambling and problem also has carried on the thoroughdiscussion.