从不作为犯罪看和谐社会背景下的刑事政策

不作为犯罪的历史沿革表明,古代社会的刑法以国家威权主义为特征,大量规定不作为犯罪。近代以伴随着启蒙运动的兴起不作为犯罪成立的范围开始受到限制。我国长期奉行的国家威权主义有刑事制裁扩张的倾向,在社会矛盾凸现期更要警惕犯罪圈的扩张。刑法处罚的不作为犯罪,在某种程度上说属于刑罚的扩张,因此限制不作为犯罪成立的范围,对于构建和谐社会背景下宽严相济的刑事政策具有重要意义。

Criminal Policy under the Background of a Harmonious Society Seen from Negative Crime

The history of negative crime showed the ancient criminal law was characteristic with state authority and regulated a lot of negative crimes.In modern times,the scope of forming negative crime began to be restricted with the rise of the enlightenment.State Authority pursued by China for long time has the tendency of expansion of criminal sanction.We should be more vigilant to the expansion of crime scope in the period of social contradiction highlighting.The negative crime punished by criminal law belongs to the expansion of penalty in certain degree.So it is important for building criminal policy of both relaxed and strict under the background of harmonious society to regulate the forming scope of negative crime.