摘要
The objective phenomenon of reliance on confessions is the source of many problems in the practice of criminal justice in China. Although successive amendments to the law have endeavored to improve the handling of confessions, they have been unable to resolve the dilemma of a rigid management mode, incompatible management strategies, and conflicting attitudes towards management. This paper has made a multi-dimensional reinterpretation of it from the judges＇ perspective, including functional analysis, cultural interpretation and immediate considerations. It reveals that behind its functions of offering moral comfort or allowing evasion of responsibility, confession, as a medium of physical and intellectual management, has the more important function of supplementing and improving the legitimacy of criminal verdicts. The remolding of the legitimacy of criminal verdicts with the coordinated improvement of the management of confessions will change the mode of association between those who currently govern confession and those they govern and will clash with the current closed mode of criminal justice management, thereby promoting a transformation in the governance of criminal justice.
作为客观现象的口供依赖在中国刑事司法实践中成为诸多问题之源。历次修法虽努力改进,却一直未能走出治理模式固化、治理策略悖反、治理心态矛盾的困境。本文立足于对口供依赖进行功能分析、文化解释以及现实考量的多维解说,从法官角度展开再阐释,作为身体治理与思想治理媒介的口供,在慰藉心理、规避责任的背后,更重要的功能在于补强刑事裁判合法性。刑事裁判合法性重塑与口供治理的推进,将会改变既有治理主体与被治理者的关联方式,对现行封闭式刑事司法治理模式产生冲击,进而促进刑事司法治理发生转型。
