Abstract:

 China' s criminology displays a structural vacancy in fundamental tasks such as subject property, study objects and methods, as well as applied value. This congenital deficiency in the ontological construction of criminology subject has become a hidden danger for the development of criminology, not only making the study of criminology unable to meet the urgent demand of modern society, especially the crime control in China' s transition of society, but also producing a urgent sense of crisis in the circle of criminology. Therefore, in recent years, a deeper discussion has been made, which is both the reflection on the subject situation of China' s criminology, and the consideration of how to have its ontological construction in criminology for a period of social transition. And the reflection and consideration are inevitable in the disciplinary development. At present, it is vital for criminology to overcome the loose state of ontological study and establish a clear object of development of ontological construction. All these can help to understand and grasp, from a deeper level of subjects, the path choice of criminology in development.

Key words: Key words： criminology subject; ontological reflection; path choice