The relevant provisions of criminal law in the protection of archives security tend to be gradually improved. However, with the development of social economy, archive crimes show diverse characteristics and some detects and shortcomings have appeared in the original criminal law on the regulation of archive crimes. From the perspective of cohesion of archives law and criminal law, according to the legislative value and purpose of criminal law on the archive crime regulation, the paper suggests that the adjustment of protecting interests of archive crimes should be performed not only in the archives management system of the state, but also in the ownership of public and private archives; rational adjustment of archive crime conviction, moderate expansion of archive-related criminal bound, crime behaviors which are not definite in criminal law should fit into the regulations of criminal law and the criminal responsibility system of archive crimes should be reconstructed in order to effectively exert the protection and safeguard function of criminal law.