减轻处罚的含义新探

详细信息

New Discussion about the Meanings of the Mitigated Punishment

Department of Law, Zhejiang Administration College, Hangzhou Zhejiang 100028, China

摘要: 通行的见解认为,减轻处罚应该和从轻处罚相区别,从轻处罚是指在法定刑的限度以内判处较轻的刑罚,减轻处罚是指在法定刑以外判处刑罚,即法定最低刑以下判处刑罚。这种理解建立在现行的立法基础上,有其合理的一面,然而现行立法关于从轻和减轻的规定,却没有把握二者的制度宗旨,二者不是任由法官自由裁量的价值判断,必须作为方法问题在刑法典中明确规定,减轻处罚更是如此。
- 轻处罚 /
- 法定刑 /
- 从轻处罚
Abstract: The prevailing opinion holds that a mitigated punishment should differ from a lighter punishment, so that lighter punishment is referred to sentence a punishment within the limits of the prescribed punishment. While mitigated punishment is referred to sentence a punishment less than the prescribed punishment. This viewpoint is reasonable in the current legislation. However, the current legislation about lighter punishment and mitigated punishment mistakes their aims, which are not judged arbitrarily, but regulated in the criminal law as a method problem, especially to the mitigated punishment.
- mitigated punishment /
- the prescribed punishment /
- lighter punishment

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