论刑法的正当性

报应论与预防论关于刑法正当性的观点都有其片面性:报应论囿于既往的犯罪事实,未考虑刑法的功利因素;预防论只考虑到刑法的功利因素,未顾及刑法对既往犯罪的报应意义,实践中容易夸大刑法的作用,涉及无辜。因此,刑法的正当性应在于报应与预防的对立统一,只有树立这一思想,才能保证在刑法研究和实践中不出偏颇。

On the Legitimateness of the Criminal Law

With regard to the legitimateness of the criminal law,both retribution and prevention are one-sided.Retribution is confined to precedent criminal facts without concern for the utility of the criminal law.On the contrary,prevention takes into account only the utility of the criminal law without concerning the punishment of precedent crimes and overestimates the criminal law in practice,apt to get in touch with the innocent.Consequently,the legitimateness of the criminal law should be settled in line with the unity of opposites.Only in this way can the criminal law be impartial both in theory and in practice.