刑法国际化视野下的我国刑法理念更新

刑法理念是指人们对刑法的性质、刑法的机能、刑法的作用、犯罪、刑罚等基本问题的理性认知,它具有中介外化功能、预测功能、批判功能与导引功能。我国作为法治后发型国家,实现刑法现代化的必然途径就是刑法的国际化,这不仅包括制度层面上刑法规范的国际化,还包括精神层面上刑法理念的国际化。刑法性质观、刑法机能观、刑法作用观、刑法理性观、犯罪观与刑罚观等理念的更新,是我国刑法国际化进程中的重中之重。

China's Criminal Legal Ideas Renewal in Perspective of International Criminal Law

The idea of criminal law is the rational knowledge about the character of criminal law, the function of criminal law, etc. It has four aspects of function, such as critical function, forecast function, and so on. As a law-backward country, the path to modernization of criminal law of China is the internationalization of criminal law. It includes the internationalization on the norm of criminal law and on the idea of criminal law, furthermore, the latter is more important during the course of internationalization.