规范化量刑方法:应用、问题及完善

Normalized Sentencing Methods: Application,Problem and Improvement

规范化量刑方法是最高人民法院在总结司法经验的基础上,经过多年的试点探索而最终得以形成的。这种量刑方法的基本做法是:将与犯罪有关的事实和情节进行合理划分,进而针对这些事实和情节进行分步量刑,最后得出宣告刑。规范化量刑方法的科学性是比较明显的,但是,将这一量刑方法作为基本的刑罚裁量方法,其在目前也仍然存在着一些不够合理和不够充分之处。为进一步发挥我国规范化量刑方法在有效促进量刑的公正性和合理性方面的重要作用,当前有必要对这一量刑方法进行必要的充实和完善。其中,重点就是要解决量刑起点的合理确定问题,并同时将这一量刑方法的规范性有效拓展至无期徒刑以及不同种自由刑并罚的合理适用方面。

Normalized sentencing methods have come into being after years of pilot exploration, based on judicial experience summarized by Supreme Peoplet Court. The basic steps of the sentencing methods can be listed as follows： to rationally define facts and circumstances concerning crimes, to conduct sentencing towards those facts and circumstances step by step, to draw declared penalty. It can be obviously found that normalized sentencing method is very scientific, but it still has many unreasonable and insufficient problems as a basic sentencing discretion method. Therefore, at present, it is necessary to improve this sentencing method in order to further play its important role in facilitating impartiality and rationality of sentencing. The focus lies in that we need to reasonably identify the starting point of sentencing and meanwhile effectively expand the scope of normalized sentencing method to reasonable application of life imprisonment and combined punishments which deprive freedom.