我国刑法时效制度之立法检视

时效制度的本质,是对国家向犯罪人行使刑罚请求权和刑罚执行权的限制。其出发点在于为刑事法律所力不能及处于刑罚真空中的犯罪人设置的一种补救性措施,以此实现国家利益与犯罪的合法权益较好的契合,但我国时效制度的立法,仍处在较为低级的初级立法上。通过对时效制度的立法检视可以发现,要实现时效制度的法律价值,必须打破现行立法的虚假时效意志,使其最终回到时效制度的原点上。

Legislative Inspection of Limitation System in Criminal Law of China

The essence of limitation system is the restriction to countries concerning the execution of power and claim of punishment to criminal. Its starting point is to set up a kind of remedial measure for criminal who is in the state of criminal punishment vacuum. So that state interests can agree with criminals' legitimate interests. However, our legislation of limitation system is in a lower primary stage. It can be found we must break the pretended limitation will of current legislation and make this kind of will come back original point of limitation system to realize the legal value of limitation system.