量刑的理论与实践研究——量刑基准的确立

On the Theory and Practice of Criminal Sentence——Establishment of the standard of criminal sentence

同样性质、同样情节、同样后果的犯罪,受到不同的处罚,必然会引起人们对法律公正的怀疑,动摇人们对法律的信仰和信心。量刑的公正应当体现在不同个案的相互比较中。刑法规定的法定量刑情节需要一个参照基准,应在假定不考虑犯罪人的具体法定量刑情节的基础上,考虑犯罪人所有的与犯罪有关的全部犯罪细节包括酌定情节,抽象地确定这一犯罪应当适用的基准刑罚,再在此基础上,考虑量刑的法定情节,对基准刑罚进行适当的调整。目前需要做的工作是在立法方面进一步细化法定刑范围,通过司法解释进一步明确量刑标准,承认案例的指导作用。

People＇ s confidence in the justice of law would be shattered inevitably if cases with like nature, circumstances and consequences are treated quite differently in criminal trials. Justice of sentencing should be materialized through comparison between different individual cases. A consultable standard is needed while applying the legal circumstances stipulated in the penal code, The following steps may be effective; take into account all the details related to a crime including the circumstances for discretion without regard to the concrete legal circumstances presumably; decide abstractly the standard of punishment which should be applied to the crime; examine the legal circumstances and adjust the said criterion, What we can do now is to minutely stipulate the extent of prescribed punishment, to define the standard of sentence by the judicial interpretation, and to approbatc the directive role of cases.