犯罪本质理论及其批判——从社会危害性的理论争议出发

Criticize the Nature of Crime——By Evaluating the Social Harmfulness

所有针对社会危害性概念的批判几乎未能触及问题的核心,即真正有损于犯罪认定的,并不在于这一概念自身的内容是否具有规范性,而是其背后所代表的犯罪本质观念。犯罪本质理论不应成为刑法研究的内容,因为其会导致犯罪判断的笼统与超法规化,不利于司法实践的操作。以社会危害性说为代表的犯罪本质论,实质是将追问犯罪的本质作为刑事诉讼的唯一目标,且这一目标的实现仅依赖于对社会危害性的笼统证明,这损害了犯罪认定的逻辑性和科学性。因此,科学的犯罪论的阶层体系,应当取消社会危害性所代表的犯罪本质观念。

The Critique of the concept of social harmfulness has failed to reach the core of the drawbacks of social harmfulness. What really undermines the identification of crime does not lie in whether the content is norm or not, but lies in the underlying nature of crime represented by the social harmfulness. The study of criminal law should not be entangled in what is the nature of ,crime, because it will cause a sweeping and non standard judging on crime and will damage the judicial practice. As the representative of social harmfulness, the essence of criminal nature is on the pursuit of the criminal nature as the sole objective of criminal proceedings, and the realization of this goal depends only on the general proof of social harmfulness. It undermines the logical and scientific identification of crime. Therefore, to establish a scientific standard of crime identification, we must cancel the social harmfulness which represents the nature of the crime.