Preface

Criminal Law Library of BNU

A modern country and a modern civilization should be governed by law.The establishment and actualization of the principal guideline of rule by law is crucial for our society to make progress in the efforts of constructing socialism under rule of law.Modern criminal law，playing a very important part in the development of modern society under rule of law，has achieved great progress since 1978 when the reform and opening-up policy was carried out.Whereas，further development and reform for both theory and judicial practice of criminal law are required in the process of building socialist legal democracy，so as to bring it into full play.

The College for Criminal Jurisprudence Studies of Beijing Normal University，founded in August of 2005，is the first and，at present，the only academic research organ in China specializing in criminal jurisprudence that is independent and comprehensive entity.The College is staffed with a group of famous young and middle-aged criminologists as academic nucleus and a group of criminologists and scholars known home and abroad as specially invited consultative professors，member of experts committee，guest research fellows（professors），including those senior professors，leaders with judicial expertise from the central procuratorial，judicial and public security departments and leaders of some important international academic organizations.The college，aiming at turning into a new national leading academic body which can keep pace with international prestigious organs of criminal jurisprudence，is gradually extending its research fields covering Chinese and foreign criminal jurisprudence，international criminal law，trans-regional criminal law，criminal policy science，criminology，criminal executive law，Chinese and foreign criminal procedure law，criminal evidence law，criminal judicatory and so on following the spirit of integrated criminal science.Meanwhile，the College trains high-level criminal jurisprudence professionals and makes new exploration into research of jurisprudence and cultivation of high-level professional in China.We are trying our best to make a greater contribution in the field of criminal law science to the great cause of building our socialism under rule of law.

Cherishing this hope，the College initiated the Criminal Law Library of BNU as soon as it is founded，with the working experience of Criminal Jurisprudence Library of Renmin University of China （RUC ）and International Criminal Jurisprudence Library of RUC which had been established in the Criminal Jurisprudence Research Center of RUC and in a rather large scale before the main staff’s transfer to the College.In order to obtain a broader space for academic research，we six scholars transferred from RUC to BNU and founded this first and the only one independent academic entity in our country—College for Criminal Law Science of BNU.Learning is a continuous business，so the College reestablishes two book-series programs named“Criminal Law Library of BNU”and“International Criminal Law Library of BNU”based upon the former two libraries so as to further develop our academic cause.The two sisterly programs undertake different missions and supplement each other.The domain of the former focuses on domestic criminal jurisprudence literatures and the latter on international criminal jurisprudence literatures.Depending upon the profound academic deposit，centuries-old historical traditions and full-bodied cultural atmosphere of the prestigious Beijing Normal University and with BNU’s comprehensive and powerful integrative strength in both fields of humanity social science and nature science，the two libraries will attract and accept the contributions from the field of criminal jurisprudence home and abroad.The publications of Criminal Law Library of BNU cover the creative and profound works and translations on domestic and foreign criminal jurisprudence（criminal law，criminology，criminal execution law，criminal procedure law，criminal investigation and criminal evidence etc.）and those academic and research fruits in the field of extroversive criminal law（including international criminal law，comparative criminal law，foreign criminal law and criminal laws of Hong Kong，Macao and Taiwan）.The publications may be of either special topics or general topics or translations of foreign literatures and codifications.Meanwhile，in order to attract active concerns with important realistic issues，publications on the related topics will be collected and affiliated to Criminal Law Library of BNU as new bookseries with famous criminal jurisprudence specialists as their chief editor.The authorship of Criminal Law Library of BNUare mainly entitled to full-time and guest research fellows besides other experts and scholars engaged in criminal jurisprudence.

Through these programs of libraries，we seek to help to accumulate academic fruits，to exploit and deepen and thrive the academic researches on criminal jurisprudence，to facilitate exchanges and cooperations between domestic and foreign colleagues engaged in criminal jurisprudence and to gradually improve our theoretical and practical expertise of criminal law so as to accelerate the prosperity of our country under rule of law and the progress of social civilization.

Prof.Zhao Bingzhi

Dean of College for Criminal Law Science

BeijingNormalUniversity

Autumn of 2005