Up to now, the criminal law has experienced three historical forms, i.e. the concrete or the substantial criminal law in agricultural society, the abstract or the formal criminal law in industrial society, and the comprehensive criminal law surrounding the aim in intellectual society. The main characteristics of intellectual society are comprehensiveness and aimness, in accordance with which the criminal law in intellectual society presents as a comprehensive criminal law surrounding the aim. Surrounding the aim means a profound change of the criminal idea, especially the aimness of justice and effect;comprehensive criminal law means the comprehensiveness of internal idea and institutions of criminal law, and the comprehensiveness of external law and institutions. |