刑事诉讼的私力合作模式——刑事和解在中国的兴起

中国近期出现的刑事和解制度,可以大体区分为加害方—被害方自行和解、司法调解和人民调解委员会调解等三种模式。这一新型司法程序满足了冲突双方的利益需求,使得公安司法机关可以获得一系列诉讼收益,并有助于社会关系的修复和社会的和谐。刑事和解制度的出现,提出了一种有别于传统对抗性司法的“私力合作模式”,将被告人—被害人关系置于刑事诉讼的中心,打破了刑事诉讼与民事诉讼、犯罪与侵权的界限,对传统刑事诉讼理论造成了较大的冲击。长远地看,刑事和解将成为一种独立于正式刑事程序之外的特别程序。

On the Private Cooperation Model in Criminal Proceedings

As a method of dispute solution, criminal reconciliation applies a new route for criminal justice reform and incorporation of criminal law and criminal procedure in China. Three theories can be looked as the foundation of criminal reconciliation:Amalgamation of harmony culture of Chinese and the Occident;Regress of the status of the defendant and the victim;Principle of guilt and punishment determined by law and principle of punishment suiting to crime are changing from absolute to relative. Criminal reconciliation should run through all the criminal procedure with diverse modality