刑法修正中的政策问题

Policy Issues in Criminal Law Amendment

随着社会的不断发展变化,刑法中的部分条款无法恰当地适用于当今社会,甚至是不再适用于当今社会。根据社会的需要,刑法在不断的做出修改,至今已有十一部刑法修正案。刑法在修正的过程中被赋予了过多的社会职能,刑法修正依然朝着重刑化的方向前进,刑罚结构总体趋重,“死刑过重”的问题依旧存在,导致刑法体系不协调。过于频繁的发布刑法修正案的方式,可能会损害我国刑法本身的稳定性和权威性。我国刑法在修正时,应当适当学习国外成熟经验,做出具有前瞻性的修订,重视对重刑化刑罚结构的修改,理性吸收民意,不断完善我国刑法修正的技术。

With the continuous development and changes of society, some provisions in the criminal law cannot be properly applied to today’s society, or even no longer applicable to today’s society. According to the needs of society, the Criminal Law is constantly being revised, and there have been eleven amendments to the Criminal Law so far. The criminal law has been given too many social functions in the process of revision, and the revision of the criminal law is still moving towards the direction of heavy punishment. The overall penalty structure is becoming heavier, and the problem of “excessive death penalty” still exists, leading to the disharmony of the criminal law system. The frequent issuance of criminal law amendments may undermine the stability and authority of China’s criminal law itself. When revising our country’s criminal law, we should appropriately learn from mature foreign experience, make forward-looking revisions, attach importance to the modification of the structure of severe punishment, rationally absorb public opinion, and continuously improve the technology of revising our country’s criminal law.