20年来经济刑法犯罪化趋势回眸及思考

Review and Reflection on the Criminalization in the Past 20 Years in Economic Criminal Law

1997年修订后的刑法实施20年来,经济刑法成为刑法修正和补充的重点之一。立法通过设置新罪或者对原规范的构成要素进行修正而大幅度地拓展了入罪范围,经济刑法犯罪化趋势凸显。转型时期对经济刑法的需求以及经济刑法本身的发展历程,使经济刑法犯罪化趋势的合理性能够得到证成。管窥20年来历次修正案对经济刑法修正内容,检讨其犯罪化进程中的得失,确立经济刑法犯罪化的一些基本原则,可以为未来经济刑法犯罪化作业提供参考性建议,以防止经济刑法出现"肥大化"。

It has been 20 years since the criminal law was revised and put into force in 1997,during which economic criminal law has been one of the central points of criminal law amendment. The criminalization scope has been significantly enlarged by creating new criminal law provisions or modifying the existing provisions,and the criminalization trend of economic criminal law has become prominent. The reasonablity of this trend can be justified by the requirement for more criminal sanction in the area of economic crime during the transitional period as well as the history of economic criminal law itself in China. Through reviewing and reflecting on all the criminal law amendments in the past 20 years,some fundamental principles for criminalization of economic crime are to be established,which can provide constructive suggestions for the further criminalization and prevent the overexpansion of criminal legislation in area of economic criminal law.