论缓刑的法律性质--兼评缓刑考验期满后再犯罪成立累犯的合理性

缓刑在不同的刑事诉讼阶段所表现的主要特性是不同的,因而对其性质进行分阶段的界定也就有了现实的依据和合理性。从决定是否对犯罪分子宣告缓刑的意义上来说,缓刑有刑罚裁量的性质;从对犯罪分子具体适用缓刑的各项规定的意义上来说,缓刑又具有刑罚执行的性质。缓刑,兼具刑罚裁量和刑罚执行两重性质。在明确缓刑具有刑罚执行的法律性质的前提下,认定缓刑考验期满后再犯相应之罪的犯罪分子为累犯,就有了理论以及法律上的合理性。此种处置,从一般预防和特殊预防的角度来看,既符合中国社会重视行为人主观意志的现实,又能更好发挥刑罚预防犯罪的功能,也是符合我国现行刑事政策和法律规定的。

On Legal Nature of Probation---Comment on Rationality of Recidivism Caused by Criminals after Expiration of Probation

Probation has different feature in different stages of criminal proceedings, which thereby provides the realistic basis and rationality to the nature of its definition. From deciding whether or not the criminal on a sense, the nature of probation have penalty discretion;from the provisions of the applicable probation in a specific sense, probation has the nature of punishment execution. Under the premise of making clear the legal nature of penalty execution of probation, recidivism has the theory and the rationality of the law. This kind of treatment, from the perspective of general prevention and special prevention, not only conforms to the reality of Chinese society attaching great importance to the perpetrators subjective will, and can better develop the function of punishment to prevent crime, also conforms to our country current criminal policy and the law.