“重典治刑”与和谐社会构建

The Principle of Heavy Penalty and the Construction of a Harmonious Society

和谐社会的构建是一个漫长而复杂的过程,我国现行刑事立法与司法实践中的重刑主义思想、"严打"的刑事政策与构建和谐社会相背离。历史与现实表明,要构建和谐社会就必须清醒地认识刑法的地位与作用,摒弃重刑主义和迷信刑法的观念,实行刑法的轻刑化与非刑罚化,彻底贯彻罪刑法定原则,妥善解决好打击犯罪、预防犯罪与保障人权的关系,并综合考虑社会其他诸多因素,才能最终建立起真正的和谐社会。

The construction of a harmonious society is a long and complex process. The ideas of heavy penalty in the present criminal legislation and judicial practices and the criminal policies of taking severe measures against grave illegal and criminal activities depart from the objective of building a harmonious society. History and reality have shown that we have to clearly know the place and role of criminal laws,throw off the heavy penalty principle and the blind belief of criminal laws,carry out dispunishmentalization and depenalization in the criminal law,properly handle the relationship of fighting crimes,preventing crimes and assuring human rights,and take many other social factors into consideration. Only in this way can we build a real harmonious society.