Campus bullying constitutes a crime and should bear criminal responsibility. It is necessary to consider whether the bully has the ability to bear criminal responsibility, the degree of personal injury of the bully and other factors to determine whether it constitutes a crime. If a person who has reached the age of 16 commits a crime, he shall bear criminal responsibility.
If a person who has reached the age of 14 but not the age of 16 commits intentional homicide, intentional injury that causes serious injury or death to another person, rape, robbery, drug trafficking, arson, explosion, or the dropping of dangerous substances, he shall bear criminal responsibility.
Legal basis
Article 234 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China [Crime of Intentional Injury] Whoever intentionally harms another person's body shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance.
Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and causes serious injury to another person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years; Whoever causes death or serious injury to another person by especially cruel means and causes serious disability shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death. Where this Law provides otherwise, such provisions shall prevail.
