刑事判决的合法性诉求

On the Legitimacy of Criminal Judgment

在现代社会中,对刑事案件的审理和裁判是审判机关所垄断的一项重要活动,因此刑事审判权在本质上是一种国家权力,社会控制是这种国家权力的一种基本功能。相应地,刑事判决也便成为社会控制的重要手段。而这种社会控制机制的运作效果,在很大程度上不是决定于刑事判决强制力的程度,而是取决于刑事判决能否得到社会公众(包括当事人等)的认同和服从。因此,刑事判决必须获得合法性。

Legitimacy research is in the area of national common power, and the criminal judgment is a result of this kind of state power operation. As a kind of national common power, the power of criminal judgment also has the basis of national common power. In this way, the legitimacy problem of criminal judgment does not have any obstacle in the category of state power. In addition, in the social controlling mechanism of the law, the criminal judgment is undertaking the function of society-controlling, which is closely connected with actual effect and the public＇s identification with criminal judgment, therefore, criminal judgment＇s function of society-controlling requires criminal judgment have high legitimacy of degree too.