Reforming Prisoners Ethics Research

Reforming prisoners is a common problem facing the contemporary world for a long time.In a strict sense,people attaches great importance to "reforming prisoners"when the modern social began.Before countries mainly through torture and forced labor treatment of prisoners,prison execution ways mainly based on retribution doctrine,people paid little attention to the ethical characteristics of the reform of prisoners.At the beginning of the late Qing Dynasty prison improvement,China was gradually accept western objective to punishment penalty thought,pay attention to the great importance of "reforming prisoners" become the core content of prison execution.In the 1990s the first prison law enacted in our country,it has become the earliest "reforming prisoners" legal basis and ethical basis.Focus of reforming prisoners,we can find the real interpretation of the ethical foundation of prison existence and penalty execution of ethical qualities,thus confirm the reform of prisoners is an ethical question.To pursuit the ideological origins of "Reforming Prisoners Ethics",it need the ethical interpretation about the history and development of prison and punishment of all countries.Deeply influenced by the religious ethics and the retributive punishment execution of punishment before modern western thoughts,reforming the criminals is to affect the education of religious ethics,including of course simply accept the punishment transformation;The contemporary western countries under the influence of individualism and purpose of punishment thought,emphasizes the role of the modern science and technology.Reforming prisoners depending on the condition of the criminal technology has become increasingly obvious,reforming thought is becoming increasingly blurred.Before prison improvement in the late Qing Dynasty,Confucianism dominated in form,torture punishment and hard work as the main mode of prison execution;After the founding of new China,our country reform successfully by means of moral influence,not only large quantities of war criminals,also to reinterpret the basic method of reforming prisoners,and to give these means relevant ethical qualities,make it become the new trend of contemporary "Reforming Prisoners".The reform of prisoners is a systematic project;it not only involves the legal issues,and mainly relates to ethical questions.As an ethical and moral problem,reforming prisoners has a unique ethical connotation and ethical principles.First,prisoners belong to the special group of human society,is a temporary appellation based on penalty execution.Around the world people cannot agree on a name for"prisoner",but the "prisoner" in modern Chinese appellation is an official language,specifically those who was found guilty by the court and subject to punishment.Obviously,these terms are in emphasis on ethical and moral sense,in order to make them different from ordinary people.Second,the word "reform" used in a specific context,that means help prisoners "eliminate crime and to pursue the good".In the western religious world,the word "reform" and "save" is the same.So,despite the differences between Chinese and western culture,but does not affect the term"reform" to express the ethical values.The goal of reforming prisoners has ethical characteristics,its ethical issues also comes from this.The ethical principles of the reform of prisoners,including:fairness,humanitarian,enlightenment and influence.In the process of the reform of prisoners in prison,we should execute the criminal punishment according to law,maintain justice,the pursuit of the justice of national penalty value,that is around the reforming prisoners ethical appeal.The content of "reforming prisoners" includes not only general ethical appeal,but also specific ethical appeal.Prisoners,punishment,reform,prisons and police formed its basic category.Ethics of reforming prisoners built around these categories one by one.Punishment,reformation and the new ethics characteristics can be fully reflected in the process of the reform of prisoners.It is the ethic nature of punishment,the reformation of ethical process and new pursuit constitutes the general ethics appeal of reforming prisoners.Applying general ethical principles and code of ethics,to the concrete practice of reforming prisoners,it can reflect on the moral phenomenon in the field of special.Of all kinds of relations on reforming prisoners,the most basic is the "execution" and "accept".Therefore,the specific ethics appeals mainly include the "execution ethics appeal" and "accept ethics appeal".Ethics of reforming prisoners are mainly embodied through different reformation method.Based on the practice of China's prison work,management,labor,education reform as the three basic methods of reforming prisoners is a common consensus,and reforming prisoners rely mainly on the three methods.Around the ultimate ethical goal,three modification methods closely,changed in the different level of their respective ethical characteristics.In comparison,the ethical characteristics of the reform of prisoners,means more significant in contemporary China,around the"people" reforming method has obvious ethical characterization;this is China long form a tradition of "moral education".In addition,influenced by western means,contemporary China introduce or to change the use of other means also has ethical significance.For contemporary China,reforming prisoners is a new subject,and the different Chinese and western cultural background leads China hasten to a unique ethical way.After seeking for more than half a century,contemporary China prison also face many ethical confusion.The elimination of these puzzles,true implementation will be conducive to reform prisoners to target of ethics.Reforming prisoners ethics is not limited during execution of penalty,it objectively exists natural extension.After serving a reformation,they will return to society,their identity by "prisoners" to "ordinary citizens",judicial practice referred to as "Out of jail people".The ethical concern of former prisoners called released protection system.That is to say,ethical care of "Out of jail people" is the common combination of legal and ethical,it due to the comprehensive value of punishment civilization.Therefore,from the "prisoners" to "Out of jail people",on the surface is the ending of the execution of punishment,but the punishment of ethical goal and the social construction of ethical order still exist.At this point,Reforming prisoners can truly as an ethical problem and embody the value of its existence.