With the advent of digital network era, the form of archives has changed greatly from "tangible archives" to "intangible archives". As a result, the archival crime endangering archives safety also presents new situation and new characteristics. It is increasingly showed that the provisions of the current criminal law cannot fully meet the need of archives safety protection in digital network era and there are some problems such as the complexity and diversity of criminal subjects, the narrow scope of criminal objects and the lag of behavior regulations. In order to give full play to the function of criminal law as a safeguard law, it is necessary to emphasize the value orientation of equal protection of state-owned archives, collective archives and personal archives in the idea of criminal law protection of archives safety in the digital environment; the relevant provisions of criminal law should be adjusted in criminal legislation to effectively link up the archives law and criminal law; the standard for determining the circumstances of archival crime should be improved in the criminal justice to give full play to the role of criminal law and ensure the archives safety.