Research on the Types and Legal Basis for Biosecurity Crimes under the New Situation

Abstract

Today, China is facing many risk factors and great challenges in biosecurity crimes. Biosecurity-related crimes generally include biological weapon attack, bioterrorism, destruction of biological genetic resources and biodiversity, and finally, interference with infectious disease prevention and control. Crimes related to biosecurity in the Criminal Law of China are mainly stated in the chapters about crimes jeopardizing state security, against public security, social administration, and crimes of dereliction of duty.