综述历次刑法修正:内容、特点和原因——兼论和谐社会视野下的《刑法修正案》

自1997年《刑法》施行以来,全国人大常委会适应社会发展需要,先后通过了7个《刑法修正案》。这些刑法修正增设、修改了罪名和罪状,或罪名未变但修改了罪状和调整了某些犯罪的法定刑等。从历次修正的内容上可以反映出刑法修正上的及时性、广泛性、连贯性、国际化和罪刑相适应的特点,同时也揭示出历次刑法修正是基于社会现实、刑事政策、刑法理念、刑法研究、刑事司法和刑法与国际接轨需要的规律。建议今后强调在和谐社会的视野下来把握刑法修正的方向。

Summary of Previous Amendments to the Penal Code: Content, Characteristics and Reasons

Since the implementation of the Criminal Code in 1997, in order to meet the needs of social development, the NPC Standing Committee has adopted seven amendments of the Penal Code. The content of the previous Criminal Code amendments includes creating a new offense and the terms of counts, amending the charges and the terms of counts, amending the terms with the same charges and adjusting the counts of certain crimes. Those amendments reflect the characteristics in timeliness, universality, consistency, internationalization, and suiting punishment to crime. At the same time, they also reflect the fact that the amendments of the Penal Code are based on the social reality, criminal policy, criminal idea, criminal research, criminal justice and the thinking of internationalization of criminal law. Thus the previous amendments will lead the direction of future amendments in order to build a harmonious society.