贪腐犯罪定罪量刑数额提升的法治反思——以最新刑事立法与司法解释为中心

Reflection on Increase of Criminal Threshold For Corruption Crime from Perspective of Rule of Law

严峻的贪腐违法犯罪形势和国民对贪腐的感知适应,是"两高"最新颁布的《关于办理贪污贿赂刑事案件适用法律若干问题的解释》提升贪腐犯罪定罪量刑数额的现实和社会心理原因。《解释》提升贪腐犯罪定罪量刑数额虽然有助于缓解眼下实践办案的难题,但却面临更为根本性的法治疑问。提升贪腐犯罪定罪量刑的数额意味着国家"严惩腐败"刑事政策和法治立场的让步。刑法对贪腐犯罪治理意义原本就相当有限,《解释》的做法具有导致国民反腐意识进一步钝化和刑法反腐功能进一步衰退的风险。反腐必须坚守法治理性,倚重刑法反腐已走到尽头,国家反腐刑事政策的法治转型迫在眉睫。

The severe situation of corruption and bribery crimes and citizens＇adaptation of sense to it should be the actual and social psychological reasons to explain the increase of sentencing amount of this sort of crimes prescribed by＂The Interpretation Concerning the Application of Law to Corruption and Bribery Criminal Cases＂.The increase should be helpful to resolving difficult problems in dealing with cases in practice,but may encounter more fundamental problems at the level of rule of law.It means the concession of stance of the national criminal policy and that of rule of law,which tends to＂punish corruption severely＂,and also produces risks for gaining inactivation of citizens＇awareness and recession of criminal law＇s function toward anti-corruption.In other words,anti-corruption must hold the rationality of rule of law that needs to be consolidated,and national criminal policies in combating with corruption should be changed immediately rather than embracing the criminal law.