The nation\'s system of non-imprisonment criminal punishment for minors started in a later time because of various reasons.

The first one is to import the harmony value into criminal procedure;the second one is to frame more multiple system of dealing with the case;the third one is to generalize outside-prison punishment.

Today, modern penalty tends to put more emphases on non-imprisonment penalty.

Up till now, it is a fact that the non-imprisonment penalty has been wildly used in thedeveloped countries.

Due to the characteristics of economic crimes and the reform of penalty,the light penalty of economic crimes should take non-imprisonment punishment as the main approach.

As the first pass of community rectification,the court should have modern judicial notion,timely and properly apply the penalty against liberty or non-imprisonment punishment within the framework of Chinese current law to effectively and duly rectify the offenders,control and reduce crime anew,and contribute to social security and stability and build of the harmo- nious society.

But with the background of the opening world and because of the huge cost, unobvious effect and much side effect, many countries try their best to find an appropriate form of non-imprisonment punishment which can go along well with their own national conditions and.

China should advocate wide application of non-imprisonment.