和谐社会·后现代·宽严相济刑事政策

The Harmonious Society,Post-modernism and Criminal Policy of Temper Justice with Mercy

构建和谐社会是当前中国学术界关注的热点问题。后现代与和谐社会有内在的联系,因而可以说明和谐社会在中国构建的必然性。刑法作为一种重要的公共制度,应该积极回应社会变革。在和谐社会语境中,宽严相济刑事政策能够使刑法发挥其治理而非镇压的技术功能,而后现代理论则为刑法的这种转向提供哲学上的合理性依据。立足中国本土资源,迎合中国实践应是中国刑事法发展的正确方向。

The construction of harmonious society is one hot topic which the current Chinese academic field pays attention to. The post-modernism and the harmonious society have the intrinsic relation, which can explain the inevitability of construction of harmonious society in China. As one important public system, criminal law should respond to social transform positively. In the harmonious social linguistic environment, criminal policy of temper justice with mercy can help criminal law to display its government instead of non-suppression technical function, and post-modernism can provide rational basis of the philosophy for this kind of changes of criminal law. Based on the Chinese native resources, catering to practice of China should be correct development direction of Chinese criminal law.