Kalinina, T.M. Criminal legal measures in the legislation of China and Muslim states

Abstract: This article is devoted to analysis of criminal law measures in the legislation of states belonging to the families of traditional (community) law states (The People’s Republic of China, The Republic of Korea, Japan) and religious law state (the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Afghanistan, Turkey). The article includes analysis of criminal legal measures, based upon the examples of the Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China of 1979, the Criminal Code of the Republic of Korea of 1953, the Criminal Code of Japan of 1907 (ed. 1995), The Law on Islamic Criminal Punishments of the Islamic Republic of Iran of 1991, the Criminal Code (the Law on Punishments) of the Republic of Afghanistan of 1976, and the Criminal Code of Turkey of 2004. The author comes to a conclusion that punishments dominate as criminal law measures. The Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China also provides for the criminal responsibility of legal entities.

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