刑法司法解释方法论——寻求刑法司法解释的客观性

The Judicial Interpretation Method of Criminal Law

刑法解释方法一直是刑法解释学中的核心课题。在刑法解释方法中,文义解释方法作为传统的解释方法之一,其承诺法律自身中存在客观性,只有严格按照语义进行解释才能保证刑法解释的客观性。目的论解释方法主张对刑法条文的解释应遵循一定的目的,未必要机械地按照语义来进行解释,其关注的是在个案中法官如何理解、解释和应用刑法条文才能实现刑法的目的。因此,在目的论解释方法中,刑法解释的客观性是指“合法性”与“正当性”。

The judicial interpretation method of criminal law is the issue questions in the science of the interpretation of criminal law. Among the methods of the analysis of criminal law, the method of literal analysis, as a traditional interpretation method, claims that law itself should be objective. So people must interpretative according to literature strictly to ensure the objectivity of interpretation of criminal law. The aims interpretation method claims that the interpretation of criminal law should follow certain aim is and people may not interpret it according to literature rigidly. This theory cares for how judges understand, interpretation and apply to provisions of the criminal law to realize the aims of the criminal law in the specific cases. So, in the method of the aim interpretation, the objectivism of the criminal law means 'legitimacy' and 'justification'.