唐代保辜制度对当代刑事和解制度的启示

Enlightenment of Baogu System in Tang Dynasty to the Contemporary Criminal Reconciliation System

保辜制度是我国古代一项极具特色的法律制度,在唐代臻于成熟。保辜制度的目的在于确定伤害行为与结果的因果关系,具有对受害人进行保护、对加害人赋予悔改机会以平稳修复社会关系的深层内涵,从某种意义上其与当代的刑事和解制度的目的有着一定的相通性,对于完善我国的刑事和解制度具有积极意义。借鉴唐代保辜制度理念,可以从扩大适用范围、增加审查起诉阶段观察期、加大司法机关参与力度、实行执行阶段保证人制度等方面完善我国刑事和解制度。

The system of Baogu was a very distinctive legal system in ancient China,which reached maturity in the Tang Dynasty.The purpose of Baoguo system is to determine the causal relationship between the harmful behavior and the result.It has the deep connotation of protecting the victim and giving the victim an opportunity to repent to restore the social relationship smoothly.In a sense,it has a certain degree of commonality compared to the purpose of the contemporary criminal reconciliation system,which has positive meaning for improving the current criminal reconciliation system.Referring to the concept of Baogu system of Tang Dynasty,we can improve China’s criminal reconciliation system in terms of expanding the scope of application,adding observation period to the review prosecution stage,increasing the participation of judicial organs,implementing the guarantor system in the implementation stage and so on.