Governance Dilemmas and Response Strategies of Spiritual Pyramid Scheme
As an important type of new crime,spiritual pyramid scheme makes participants get great spiritual satisfaction by means of brainwashing and relys on the"voluntariness"of parti-cipants to develop downline and accumulate wealth.At present,the spiritual pyramid scheme de-veplops rapidly and presents many characteristics like tight management structure,stronger hid-den ability,diversified brainwashing methods and socialization of harmful consequences.The management of spiritual pyramid scheme is faced with dilemmas in supervising and identifying,detecting and combating,law regulating,recovering ill-gotten gains and maintaining stability.In this regard,it is necessary to improve relevant legislation,increase supervision,strengthen col-laboration and enhance publicity,in order to eliminate the breeding ground for spiritual pyramid scheme.