行贿罪刑罚配置的立法变迁与建构展望

Legislation Changes and Construction Prospects forthe Punishment Configuration for Crime of Offering Bribes

制定法预示着法律的发展趋势,《刑法修正案(十二)》体现了行贿罪立法现代化的发展方向。我们可以从行贿罪的立法变迁中提炼出一些规律性表征,为行贿罪刑罚配置提供立法思路。宽严相济刑事政策是行贿罪刑罚配置的灵魂,行贿罪刑罚配置应当考量与其具有对向关系的受贿罪,行贿罪修订需要对刑法结构进行反思和重塑。行贿罪刑罚配置问题被社会广为关注,但如何配置行贿罪的刑罚却见仁见智。对此应当从刑事政策出发,合理设计行贿罪刑罚配置,以期符合“受贿行贿一起查”的价值蕴含。

The enactment of laws foreshadows the development trend of the law,and the Amendment to the Criminal Law(12)reflects the direction of modernization in the legislation of crime of offering bribes.We can extract some regular characteristics from its legislative changes,providing legislative ideas for its punishment configuration.The criminal policy of combining leniency and severity is the soul of its punishment configuration.Its punishment configuration should consider the crime of accepting bribes that has a direct relationship with it.The revision of the crime of offering bribes requires reflection and reshaping of the criminal law structure.The issue of punishment allocation for offering bribes has been widely concerned by society,but how to allocate punishment for offering bribes varies from person to person.We should start from criminal policy and design a reasonable punishment configuration for offering bribes,in order to meet the value connotation of“investigating both offering bribes and accepting bribes”.