从“教罚并重”到“保护优先”——论台湾地区少年司法理念的转变

From “Education with Punishment”to “Protection Priority”:The Change of Judicial Concept of the Juvenile Justice in Taiwan

台湾地区过去对非行少年的处遇强调"教罚并重、宽严并济",1997年的大幅修法动作,显现出台湾地区少年司法理念从"惩罚"到"保护"的转变。司法制度需要司法理念来指引,选择怎样的司法理念,取决于人们看待少年的态度。充分尊重其主体性、未来性,集结各种社会资源,将非行少年从社会边缘拉回,使其尽早复归社会,而不是将其排斥于社会边缘,让其从非行少年逐步变成成年犯罪人。

The treatment for delinquency of teenagers stressed education with punishment and kindness with severity,but a substantial action to amend the law in 1997 showed that Taiwan has achieved the conversion of the policy of juvenile justice from ＂punishment＂to ＂protection＂. The judicial philosophy causes the judicial system to choose the kind of judicial philosophy depending on the attitude that we treat teenagers. We should respect young people and their future,and gather a variety of social resources for them,and pulls them back from the margins of society rather than giving them up.