.1980 Since Criminal Policy Changes And Theoretical Inquiry

Criminal policy means the strategy that struggle against crimes effectively, and the reaction by the state for crime political and organized, it's the dynamic system which changed with the variation of social situation. That's to say, our country according to the condition of public order and the crime status, which established with the public power, for the sake of preventing crime, controlling crime, protecting criminals and victims' right, vindicating social order and realizing social justice. Observe from "Hard-striking campaign" for nearly 30 years to the "Combining punishment with leniency" nowadays, our criminal policy makes ceaseless progress, and tends to perfect. The essay tries to pursue the changes of inner link of criminal policy by the evolutional track of Hard-striking campaign. There are a lot of new problems raising from the variation of the interests structure of our society, the crime status and the condition of public order tend to more serious, and it straightly affects the adjusting of our criminal policy. Analyzing the major factors which affecting the adjusting of our criminal policy, could help us finding out the disadvantages of the criminal policy, and it also can make the orientation of our criminal policy more exactly. In the process of constructing harmonious socialist society, the state advocates "combining punishment with leniency", it means when we seriously strike the crime which has a severe harm to the public, we should treat the trivial crime more lenient, and try to harmonize the punishment and leniency, furthermore, to realize the target of the criminal policy furthest. It worth to pay attention that the criminal policy is not the substitute of Hard-striking campaign, on the contrary, it is the improvement and enrichment of the severe punishment, it also the enforcement of the substance of Hard-striking campaign. At the same time, it can add the harmonious factors and reduce the disharmonious factors to the society, and furthest prevent the society antagonism, so it has a great value and sense to the age.