刑法调整违反经济规制行为的边界

How to Use Criminal Punishment on the Act of Violating Economic Regulation

在我国,由公权力实施的惩罚类型主要是行政处罚和刑事处罚,相应地,针对违反国家对经济活动规制行为的惩罚,也存在"惩罚二元制"。在法律实践中,如何区分经济性违法行为与经济犯罪是一个相当复杂的问题。结合规制理论,可以将"破坏社会主义市场经济秩序罪"区分为单纯规制犯和非单纯规制犯。两者都违反了国家对经济活动的规制;不同的是,非单纯规制犯还侵犯了个体性法益。在我国现有法治框架下,对于单纯规制犯的刑法立法应当持十分审慎的态度,对这类行为原则上以行政处罚为宜;对属于单纯规制犯的犯罪类型,在司法适用中,应通过目的解释方法限缩其实际适用范围。

In China, there are two main punishments by the state： administrative penalty and criminal penalty. Accordingly, punishments on individual＇s violating economic regulation constitute a penalty system of duality. In current practice, it is indeed a rather tough legal issue how to distinguish econom- ic crimes from economic administrative violation. Referring to the theory of regulation, economic crimes can be divided into two categories： purely regulatory crimes and mixed regulatory crimes. Both of them violate the legal orders formed by the regulation of the state on economic acts, and the latter also violates individual rights. Under the current framework of legal system, upmost vigilanceandpru- dence is required to provide a new article in criminal code on violating the economic regulation, as such behaviors can be punished by administrative penalty. For those provisions already in criminal code, they should be applied with cautiousness by using teleological method of interpretation.