The system scope of application lies in the limit of misfeasance and malefaction.
其特点是在适用范围上以违法犯罪行为为限;
It is a form of holding administrative subjects responsible for their misfeasance to compel administrative subjects to perform legal duties.
强制履行法定职责是对行政主体的失职行为追究法律责任的一种形式。
But most countries and areas' penal code has no specific provision on this, only researches it as supra-law ground for elimination of misfeasance in theory.