《刑法修正案(九)》终身监禁制度之商榷——终身监禁制度之辨析及其制度改造之经济分析

随着国家首例终身监禁案例的宣判,《刑法修正案(九)》对贪污、受贿罪增加终身监禁制度的修改再次进入公众视野。学界对这一修改早已有不同的声音。本文采用文献分析法,总结对终身监禁制度的正面评价,并从多角度对终身监禁之价值进行辨析;同时从法经济学的立场出发,运用刑罚经济分析中的"效用最大化"评价此项制度变动之效率状况。由此得出结论:关于终身监禁制度的正面评价仍有待商榷;从法经济学角度看,终身监禁制度的确立并不能达到增加犯罪成本、降低犯罪率的效果。

Under the backdrop of the first anti-craft case in which the court pronounced the application of life imprisonment to the criminal, this passage takes a close look at the effort made on anti-graft campaign by adding life imprisonment to the crime of corruption in Amendment of Criminal Law （gth）. Expert commentaries on this issue diverge. This article attempts to discuss whether there still exists room for us to doubt those positive opinions by reexamining them respectively and comprehensively. Then it will economically analyze the amendment to the existing crime of corruption from the perspective of ＂ maximizing the efficiency＂. We conclude that those positive aspects of this change should be cautioned and it fails to increase the cost of corruption and reduce the incidence of it.