构建我国刑事和解制度的基本设想

Basic Assurance of Constructing China's Criminal Conciliation System

刑事和解制度是西方国家的一种刑事思潮。它起源于20世纪中叶,是西方"以犯罪人为本位"的传统观念到"强调被害人的人权"这一转变过程的产物,它旨在通过犯罪人和被害人的平等对话,达到恢复犯罪人和被害人的和睦关系,并使罪犯改过自新,复归社会的目的。目前,西方国家对刑事和解制度的研究方兴未艾,我国当前处于经济转型时期,激增的犯罪率对传统诉讼模式和效率提出了挑战,因此,构建适应我国国情的刑事和解制度有着重大的理论和现实意义。

Criminal conciliation system is a criminal trend of thought in the western countries, originating in the middie of the 20th century. The system was a transitional product from a ＂convict - based＂ traditional idea to the human right of ＂victims＂, and intended to recover the harmonious relation through the equal dialogue between the convict and the victim to make the convict to correct his errors and a fresh start and to recover social purpose. The study of the criminal conciliation system is now in the ascendant in the western countries whereas it is a challenge of increasing crime rate to the model and efficiency of traditional lawsuit.