死刑威慑力的犯罪学分析

死刑对遏止严重犯罪最具威慑力,一向是国家保留死刑的最主要根据。事实上,无论是死刑立法还是死刑执行,都不可能产生人们所预期的特殊威慑效果。在这一问题上,人们惯常于从一般法理角度或从人权原理出发去进行应然性探讨,难免思辨有余而说服力不足。立足于对现有实证研究结论的正确解读和基于人性立场去伪存真地辨析,不仅有助于终结在死刑存在根据上的简单重复和无谓争辩,而且也有助于认清无论是死刑的废除还是保留皆具有其合理性的实质,从而明确国家在推进社会文明语境下控制死刑应该努力的基本方向。

A Criminological Analysis on the Deterrent Force of Death Sentence

The fact that death penalty is the most efficient to prevent serious crimes is the uppermost basis to preserve it for nations.But death penalty cannot be as effective as people expect,eithin legislation or in execution.Interpretation based on positive material and differentiation based on human nature analysis,is beneficial not only to end up unnecessary controversies of the existence of death penalty,but also to understand the essence of death penalty and figure out the direction of national control of death penalty.