Criminal Laws Regulation Of Common Law Countries On Competitive Sports Injuries Conduct

For a long time, because of the highly competition and confrontation,competitive sports are very popular. In the fierce competition, it is inevitable thatcollision and injure will occur among athletes. However, with the commercialize ofcompetitive sports, for tournament victory, athletes sometimes will use some meansthat violate sports rules, even unlawful to harm opponent. Sports injures become moreand more serious, the increasing events about sports injuries bring great harm,athlete’s legitimate rights and interest suffer serious infringement, hindering thehealthy development of competitive sports.People has taken various measures to control sports injures. Since the sports fieldis a particular field, it has the tradition of autonomy, it is general practice that inaccordance with the internal rules of sports organizations, for example, for the athletesthat has implemented harm behavior, taking the ban, fine and other measures. But thisapproach has not effectively control the injured actions in competitive sport, thus itsuffered people’s criticism and questioning. Therefore, the legal liability, includingcriminal liability has been introduced to this field.In common law countries, sports injures is extremely rampant, there are manyarguments in these countries that whether athletes should be held criminal liability,but they have justified the criminal liability of sports injures, in judicial practice, thereare many cases about the criminal liability of sports injures. Subject to thecharacteristics of inherent risk in sport, injured actions in sport can not be fullyinvestigated for criminal liability in accordance with the usual injures in other field,.In the course of give criminal sanctions to athlete, consent is the main defense.As a defense, consent can effectively negates criminal liability. In judicial practice,common law countries has actively made explorations in the specific use of consent,they have accumulated rich experiences.The article focus on the criminal regulation on sports injures in common lawcountries, studying the relevant provision on the criminal liability of sports injures,trying to start from specific cases and criminal theory and practice to find the path ofcriminal law regulation on sports injures in common law countries, to promote thehealthy development of competitive sports.For the regulation of sports injures, whether the intervention of criminal law is the best way? Starting from the obstacles of prosecution and the drawbacks ofcriminal proceedings that investigating criminal liability for athletes, this article try toexplore the reasonable direction of regulation on sports injures, to achieve the purposethat ensuring the healthy development of sports and protecting the healthy and safetyof the athletes.