近年来刑事司法改革的回顾与反思

Retrospection and Reflection on the Criminal Judicial Reform in Recent Years

从1996年修改后的刑事诉讼法颁行至今,我国刑事司法领域发生了很多重大的变化,诸如辩护、强制措施、审判方式以及无罪推定原则的贯彻等问题,都在一定程度上反映了刑事诉讼法修改的得与失。而程序法实施的保障机制、辩护权的司法救济以及法庭审理流于形式的问题,也对刑事诉讼理论提出了新的挑战。尽管目前刑事司法中自生自发的改革正在蓬勃展开,但中西法律文化的冲突问题也不容忽视。要取得刑事司法改革的成功,需要着力构建权利救济制度,推进刑事诉讼体制的改革,并在刑事诉讼程序观念上有重大的转变。

From the amendment of criminal procedure law in 1996 on, many obvious changes emerged in criminal judicial practice including defense, compulsory measures, method of trial and the implementation of the innocence assumption, which reflected both the advantages and limitations of the amendment to some extent. However, new challenges face the theory of criminal procedure such as guarantee mechanism of the procedure law enforcement, judicial remedy for the right to defense, and formalistic trial proceedings. In addition, conflicts between Chinese legal culture and occidental one should not be ignored though unprompted reform of criminal justice is in process of expandedness. The success in criminal judicial reform shall be acquired by establishing the remedy mechanism for the rights, advancing systematic reform, and transforming the procedural conception regarding criminal lawsuit.