Reform and Analysis of the Division of Legal Responsibility between Enterprises and Third-Party Governance under Environmental Pollution

Table 8

Application of sentencing circumstances of environmental pollution crime concluded by courts at all levels of a province in the first instance from 2015 to 2021.

	Sentencing circumstances	Number of cases	Case number
1	Confess	153	(2013) Jin Pu criminal procedure of first instance No. 765, etc
2	Render meritorious service	64	(2014) Jin Pu criminal procedure of first instance No. 187, etc
3	Surrender oneself	604	(2014) Yu Yu criminal procedure of first instance No. 151, etc
4	Accessory	369	(2015) Wen Le criminal procedure of first instance No. 1573, etc
5	First offense, incidental offense	99	(2015) Tai Lu criminal procedure of first instance No. 271, etc
6	Pay environmental remediation fee	35	(2019) Zhe 0602 criminal procedure of first instance No. 1172, etc
7	Recidivism	26	(2015) Wen Le criminal procedure of first instance No. 959, etc