Qualitative Study of PUA Behavior in Suicide Cases in Criminal Law

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jel.202414416

Author(s)

Wu Jiayue

Affiliation(s)

People's Public Security University of China, Beijing , China

Abstract

In recent years, the victims of PUA(Pick Up Artisit) mental control commit suicide frequently enter the public eye, but the criminal law of our country has not regulated this kind of PUA behavior. The prevailing theories in China generally agree that the act of participating in suicide needs to be convicted, but the principle of legality of crime and punishment cannot be directly applied to regulate. On the one hand, most scholars advocate the "complicity theory", which holds that the behavior of participating in suicide is subordinate to suicide and constitutes complicity. On the other hand, because suicide is not a criminal act, they put forward the theory of "least subordination". This view that the primary sex act is legal and the secondary act is illegal is not logically reasonable. It is suggested that on the grounds of causality between the participating act and the result of death, we should abandon the view that the crime of intentional homicide is an accomplice, and turn to the crime of intentional injury. At the same time, referring to the foreign "objective attribution theory", it is appropriate to expand the connotation of intentional injury crime, affirming that mental injury behavior belongs to the objective aspect of intentional injury crime, and identifying it as one of the actual harm results of intentional injury crime.

Keywords

PUA, Participation in Suicide, Causality, Mental Injury

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