社会控制:关于司法与社会最一般关系的理论分析

对司法功能的恰当认识是增强有关司法的知识、进行司法改革的理论前提和基础。而司法与社会最一般的功能联系 ,可以诉诸社会控制的概念予以解释。作为历史上由来已久的社会控制形式 ,司法所具有的特点包括了 :它是法律规范与组织化力量的结合 ;是对个别行为的直接控制与普遍行为的张力控制的结合 ;是法律权威与司法角色行为影响力的结合 ;是公正价值与司法制度的结合。在社会控制体系中 ,司法也居于正式的、专门的、最高的地位。

Social Control: A Theoretical Analysis of the Basic Relation between Judiciary and Society

The most common relation between judiciary and society can be explained by the concept of social control. As a form of social control with a long history, the characteristics of judiciary indicate that it is the combination of law criterion and organized power, the combination of direct control over individual behavior and indirect control over mass behavior, the combination of the authority of law and the force of judicial role action, and the combination of equitable value and judicial system. In the social control system, judicial power takes a formal, special and supreme position.