理性诘问：刑事和解是否是“以钱买刑”

刑事和解是西方社会比较重要的一项刑事司法制度,但在中国司法实践中展开的刑事和解被许多人批判为＂以钱买刑＂。＂以钱买刑＂作为中国古已有之的概念与刑事和解有本质的区别。给人以＂以钱买刑＂表象的刑事和解,其实质与刑法的基本原则在本质上是统一的,其纠正了传统刑事司法的偏颇,实现了刑事司法的实然正义,是人类的一种理性选择。但为了避免刑事和解在实践中出现异化为＂以钱买刑＂的弊端,必须进行制度化和法律化的构建,从而使刑事和解的应有价值得以保证。

A Rational Questioning:Victim-Offender Reconciliation or Using Money Substitute for Criminal Punishment

Victim-offender-reconciliation is a major system of criminal justice in western countries; nevertheless,it is criticized in practice as using money substitute for criminal punishment which had a long history in China. Actually the former system is quite different from the latter phenomenon. Being consistent with basic principle of criminal law,the victim-offender reconciliation can rectify the derivations of traditional criminal judiciary and accomplish the criminal justice in essence,thus it is a rational ...