转变与革新:论少年刑法的基本立场

少年刑法脱胎于传统刑法,而为刑事特别法的一种。它对传统刑法有着诸多革新之处,这种革新可以概括为以下五大立场性转变:从形式正义到实质正义、从社会防卫到儿童最大利益、从客观主义到主观主义、从报应刑论到教育刑论、从刑法一般化到刑法个别化。少年刑法的基本立场展现的是少年刑法的特别品质,这种特别品质往往表现为一种普通刑法的例外。但是,随着刑法的进化,这种例外往往呈现出走向一般,推广于传统刑法之中的趋势。

Changes and Renovations: Basic Stands of Juvenile Criminal Law

Juvenile criminal law is a special criminal law that derives from and changes a lot of traditional criminal law.General speaking,it has made the following five changes: from insisting on justice of formalities to substantial justice,from insisting on social prevention to protecting the best interests of children,from objectivism to subjectivism,from the theory of retributive penalty to the educational reform theory and from general penalization to individual penalization,which reveals the features of juvenile criminal law.These features are now only exceptions to ordinary criminal law,but along with the improvement of criminal law,in this author's opinion,they must be incorporated into tradition criminal law.