论我国刑罚结构之应然选择——以《刑法修正案(八)》为视角的分析
An Inevitable Choice of the Penalty Structure in China——Analysis from the Perspective of the "Crimin
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摘要: 受严峻的社会治安形势和民众传统报应情感的影响,中国现行刑罚结构属于典型的重刑刑罚结构。而随着人类社会文明的发展和对刑罚功能的反思,刑罚结构趋轻化已成为世界各国刑法改革的方向。以死刑和自由刑为主导地位的重刑结构的中国刑法受到了质疑,应在《刑法修正案(八)》的基础上,再进一步大幅度地削减死刑罪名,调整死刑与无期徒刑、有期徒刑之间的结构关系,提高罚金刑的地位和增设轻刑刑种等方面对刑罚的设置进行结构性的改革。Abstract: Influenced by the severe public security and the emotion of traditional retribution of the population,the current penalty structure in China belongs to a typical Criminal Law structure of the felony sentence.With the development of human civilization and the reflection of the penalty function,the increasingly lighted penalty structure has been the direction of the penal reform in the world.The Chinese criminal law of the structures of felony,dominated by the death penalty and freedom has been qu...