刑事责任量的根据层次论

On the Foundation Hierarchy of the Quantity of Criminal Responsibility

刑事责任量的根据具有层次性,它首先可以区分为立法根据和司法根据两个层次,其立法根据包含哲学根据和实质根据两个层次;其司法根据包含实质根据、法律根据和事实根据三个层次。由于刑事责任量有刑事责任基本量、增量、减量和变量之分,因而其法律根据又有基本量的法律根据、增量的法律根据、减量的法律根据和变量的法律根据四种;其事实根据也有基本量的事实根据、增量的事实根据、减量的事实根据和变量的事实根据四种。这些根据的具体内容均是不同的。

The foundation of quantity of criminal responsibility has its characteristic of hierarchy. Firstly, it may be classified into legislative basis and judicial basis; secondly, its legislative basis includes philosophical basis and essential basis; thirdly, its judicial basis includes essential basis, legal basis and factual basis. Because the quantity of criminal responsibility can be divided into foundamental quantity, increment, decrement and variable, its legal basis falls into four categories ： legal basis of foundamental quantity, legal basis of increment, legal basis of decrement, and legal basis of variable. Its factual basis can also be correspondingly divided into these four categories. They are different as for content of these basis.