试论身份犯的本质

On the essence of crimes of status

在近现代刑事立法中,身份之所以影响刑事责任的有无及其大小,主要是因为特定的身份与一定的犯罪构成要件相联系,决定或者影响了行为的危害性质及其程度。在我国刑法中,有关身份犯的规定与刑法面前人人平等原则并不冲突。

Based on the comparison of the different viewpoints, the author puts forward that the reason that the special status influencing criminal responsibility is that the special status contacts with all the criminal constitutional parts, and decides or influences the character and degree of the harmness of the conduct. The provisions about the crimes of status in the Criminal Law in China don′t collide with the principle of everyone being equal before the criminal law.