收受财物后退交行为的理性审视——以经济成本分析为视角

Rational Review on the Behavior of Refunding Financial after Accepted: in a Way of Economic Cost Analysis

"国家工作人员收受请托人财物后及时退还和上交"的行为不以受贿犯罪论处的规定早已定格在《关于办理受贿刑事案件适用法律若干问题的意见》中。这一规定实际上把受贿犯罪的定罪标准委身于用退交的方式予以补救的位置,由此带来国家工作人员受贿的犯罪成本降低、受贿犯罪预防控制成本增加等问题。如何在保证追责效率的同时有效控制追责成本成为亟待解决的问题。基于此,审慎论证"收受财物后退交行为"的行为方式、时间、目的等主、客观标准,并在此基础上运用经济学的成本分析法研究该项规定,详细阐释其对惩治受贿犯罪所造成的负面效应,进而提出相应对策。

In The Opinion of How to Deal with Bribery Criminal Case, the kind of behavior that State personnel return property in time after accepted should not be identified as bribery crime. This provision permits using remedial measures to change the standard of bribery crime,but brings about many negative problems. The problem demanding prompt solution is how to ensure accountability for efficiency and control the cost of accountability. Based on these issues, this paper carefully analyses the form, time and purpose of refund behavior, uses the method of economics cost to study the provisions, details the negative effects on criminal punishment, and then puts forward countermeasures.