Criminal Policy Of The Modern Thinking

By using author power as a analytic tool in the first part of the article, we make a systematic study on criminal policy, illustrate the conception and the relationship of policy, social policy, public policy and criminal policy, and demonstrate that criminal policy is a kind of the power of public which make it as a kind policy of public policy. In the second part of the article, we analyze the author power of criminal policy in the history and the contains of citizen rights implicated of the criminal policy movement, reveal that in the contemporary era the power of criminal policy originate from citizen rights. In order to protect the citizen rights, we should find out the conjoint of the author power and citizen rights — democracy, and we also conclude that such democracy is based on negotiation. In the third part of the article, we analyze the actuality of China criminal policy and recognize that in the contemporary society democracy is the foundation of the public policy and criminal policy. Accordingly, the modernization of criminal policy is based on democracy and this will include the modernization of the conception, subject, and process of criminal policy.