刑事法治语境中的民愤与审判——在刑事法学与社会心理学的边缘处思考

在我国刑事司法实践中,民愤与审判之间一直存在着难以避免的紧张关系。民愤的发生发展有其独特的心理机制,而两面性则是其固有的基本属性。因此它对罪责刑相适应原则、对刑罚的道德目的和实用目的甚至对整个刑事法治的影响都是利弊同存的,简单地肯定或否定民愤在审判中的作用都是不足取的。理性的态度应当是审慎地进行制度上的设计与完善,以让民愤扬长避短,帮助实现审判的公正。

Public Wrath and Sentence in the Context of Criminal Rule of Law--Pondering at the Border between Criminal Law and Social Psychology

The tense relationship between public wrath and sentence is always unavoidable and existing in our criminal judicial practice.The public wrath has its unique psychological mechanism,while two-sided character is it's inherent property.For this reason,it leads to the co-existence of advantages and disadvantages on those aspects: the principle of suiting punishment to crime responsibility,the ethical and practical aims of punishment,even the whole criminal rule of law.To simply make confirmation or negation for the function of public wrath in trials is not at all reasonable,while a rational attitude towards it shall be to plan,perfect it systematically,and to take advantages of it,avoid disadvantages of it,so that help to realize the justice of sentence.