论刑法中的“公务”

关于刑法意义上的公务,要分别从内涵与外延上予以把握。根据公务的统治性、管理性、服务性特征,可以从内涵上将公务划分为"政府公务"与"社会公务",其中,国家机关工作人员所从事的公务仅指政府公务而不包括社会公务。关于公务的外延,则须根据公权力特征和公共性特点来分析,基于"反面说"理论的要求和公务执行依据的内容,刑法中的公务仅限于国家公务而不包括集体公务。

"Public Affairs" in Criminal Law

In criminal law,"pubic affairs" should be interpreted from its denotations and connotations respectively.Its denotations can be divided into "governmental public affairs" and "social public affairs" in accordance with the ruling,administrative and serving features of civil service.The affairs administered by the state civil servants only refer to governmental public affairs rather than social ones.As for the denotations of "public affairs," an analysis should be made in accordance with the characteristics of public power and publicness.Based on the requirement of "opposite observation" theory and administering of pubic affaires,"public affairs" in criminal law is limited to state public affairs while collective public affairs are excluded.