西方刑事和解制度考略

刑事和解制度是当今西方国家重要的司法改革措施之一,产生于两个社会背景因素及其相互作用的影响,即以被害人为导向的刑事保护政策思潮的勃兴和以罪犯为中心的监禁、矫正政策的失败。其源于20世纪60年代,与三个传统有关。在英、法、德等国已存在制度化的刑事和解。刑事和解与社区调解有着显著区别,其程序过程包括案件的提出与受理阶段、和解准备阶段、和解阶段及后续阶段。

Overview on Western System of Victim-offender Mediation

System of victim-offender mediation is one of the important contemporary measures of judicial reforms in Western countries.It was formed because of the mutual influences between two different social background,namely the ideological upsurge of criminal protective policies on behalf of the victims and the failure of imprisonment and correction policy centralizing on the suspects.System of victim-offender mediation originated in 1960s,and it has relations with three traditions.Systematized victim-offender mediation has existed in the Great Britain,France and Germany.It's noted that there are prominent differences between victim-offender mediation and community mediation and its procedure includes four stages: case reference and acceptance or hearing,preparation for mediation,mediation period and following-up stages.