遗骸犯罪所侵犯法益之探讨

On Legal Benefits of Offences Against Corpses

遗骸犯罪所侵犯的法益决定了该罪名的规范目的及刑事法网幅度,从而深刻影响本罪的定罪与量刑。从遗骸寄托生者哀思的事实及中华民族传统"孝道"文化出发,本罪所侵犯的法益应当定位为生者对于逝者的虔敬感情。这种感情不仅是现代社会民众的高层次的精神需要,更是维护社会共同体的基石,刑法应当尊重并保障这种人类的高尚情感,由此彰显当代刑事法治的人文取向及悲悯情怀。

The legal benefits of offences against corpse dominated the charges of the specification of the purpose and the arm of the criminal law, thus influencing the conviction and sentencing of the crime. From facts of the living mourn for corpses and Chinese traditional culture of filial piety, the legal benefits of offences against the crime should be positioned as the living’s religious feelings for the dead. This feeling is not only a high level spiritual need for citizens in modern world, but also the cornerstone of the maintenance of the social community, the law should respect and protect these human noble feelings, so as to highlighting the humanistic orientation and compassion of contemporary criminal law.