实践中的刑事一审期限:期间耗费与功能探寻——以S省两个基层法院为主要样板

透过审限耗费角度的实证研究可以发现,我国基层法院刑事审判程序具有如下特征:庭前程序的"事务化",庭前程序沦为纯粹的案件管理活动;庭审程序的"速审化",庭审时间耗费少,庭审节奏明快;庭后程序的"中心化"与"间隔化"。传统观点认为,我国刑事审限制度具有人权保障和效率提升功能。通过比较和实证的考察发现,我国"贯通式"审限的真实功能为通过监控法官的审理行为,达到塑造与行政化司法制度结构相契合的审理主体的目的。

Time Limit for Completion of Criminal Trials in Practice: An Empirical Study

An empirical study on limitation for completion of trials reveals that the grass-root Chinese People’s Courts normally have the features in trying criminal cases: too much pretrial formality with which pretrial procedure is indeed degraded as case management;too little time spent on court trial rendering it like a summary one;and post trial procedure being centralized and inter-separated.Traditionally,time limit for completion of trials is held conducive to human rights protection and efficiency increase.A comparative and empirical study shows that by means of surveillance of judges’ behavior,it really serves as a means to cultivate judges to meet the requirement of the administrative judicial system.