论刑法的公众认同

保持刑法与市民感觉、国民规范意识之间的一致性 ,以保持刑法的亲和力 ,并使之获得公众对刑法的认同感 ,在我国是一个比较突出的问题。刑法理论在因果关系、不作为犯、违法论、故意、共犯、责任论等问题上都充分考虑了公众认同感问题。公众对刑法的认同包括对“生活利益的重要性”和“规范有效性”的认同两个方面。作者进一步指出 ,今后我国刑法理论与实践要更多地考虑公众认同 ,就必须注意三方面的问题 :理论总体思路的调整 ;在具体问题上的理论创新和反思 ;鼓励市民介入刑事司法裁判过程。

On the Public Approval of Criminal Law

This article argues that it is an important issue to keep the consistency between criminal law and the sense of citizens and the people's conscience of legal norms, in order to maintain the affinity and acquire more legitimacy of criminal law. The theory of criminal law considers people's legitimacy sufficiently such as in the theory of causality, omission,doctrine of breaching criminal law, intention of criminal action, complicity.People's acceptability of criminal law includes two aspects: the importance of good in everyday life and the validity of legal norm. This article also points out that if the theory of criminal law and legal practice of China should think much of people's acceptability, three question should be consider seriously: the adjustment of the approach of the whole criminal theory, the innovation and reflections of concrete issues, encouraging citizen to engage in criminal procedure.