论网络棋牌对局游戏与赌博罪的界限

On the Boundary between the Online Game and the Crime of Gambling

网络棋牌对局游戏被广为接受,但这不足以说明所有游戏行为的合法性。基于教义学的视角审视,部分游戏行为侵害了赌博罪的法益,符合"以营利为目的"的主观要件,与"聚众赌博"或"以赌博为业"的客观要件相契合,赌博罪成立。有必要明确合法网络游戏行为与赌博罪的界限,一方面由于网络游戏平台对法益的危险发生领域的支配能力有限,同时其积极阻止平台下的赌博行为,原则上无罪。另一方面由于违法判断标准"数额"的存在和平台的约束,只有极少数游戏行为是赌博行为,构成赌博罪,不会造成处罚范围过大,不会降低公众对刑法的认同感。

Online chess and board games are very popular,but its legality is vague. At the point of view of criminal law dogmatic,the part of game behaviors infringe the legal interests of crime correctly,meet the requirements of the subjective for profit,and the gambling or gambling industry correspond to the objective of crime correctly. We can clearly define the boundary between legal online game behavior and gambling crime. On one hand,due to the limited ability of the online game platform to control the legal risk and interest,it also actively prevents gambling in the platform,and is not guilty in principle. On the other hand,due to the existence of the amounts,and platform constraints,only a handful of games behavior is gambling behavior,so it is crime correctly,which will not cause the punishment scope is too large,will not reduce the public to the identity of the criminal law.