A Study on Status Crimes in Criminal Law

The status crime is an important category of the science of criminal law. The status crimes refer to crimes which can only be committed by those who have a certain status and the actor should be punished severely or leniently. They can be classified into standard status crime and nonstandard status crime. In light of the importance of the objects of bribery and corruption crimes, the author proposes: (1) To coordinate the standards of conviction and measurement of penalty between bribery corruption crimes and theft swindling crimes; (2) The standards of death penalty for bribery corruption crimes should not be too high; (3) The policy of “two crimes one kind of punishment should be applied to those who commit both bribery crime and corruption crime; (4) Death penalty should be applied to the crime for having huge amount of unidentified property.