刑法因果关系新论

刑法因果关系应分为事实因果关系和法律因果关系两个层次。事实因果关系是对危害行为与危害结果之间客观联系的归因性确认,法律因果关系是就行为人对犯罪结果承担刑事责任的归责性判断。事实因果关系是法律因果关系的基础,归因性确认是归责性判断的前提。司法机关在侦查、审查起诉和审判过程中对因果关系的认定,是从事实因果关系逐渐向法律因果关系过渡、在归因性确认的基础上逐渐增强归责性判断的过程。法院对因果关系的归责性判断应综合考虑多种价值元素,包括刑事政策、刑法精神、刑罚根据、行为的危害性及其规范违反程度、行为对结果的作用力和一般的公众观念等。

New Theory on Criminal Causality

The criminal causality should be divided into two levels of factual causality and legal causality.Factual causality is the recognition of the objective relevance between harmful behavior and damage,legal causality is the judgment of that the result of crime be attributed to the offender.Factual causality is the basis of legal causality and the recognition of attribution is the premise of the responsibility judgment.The judicial organs recognize the causality in investigation,prosecution and trial is a process,which is a transition from factual causality to legal causality and increased responsible judgment gradually on the basis of attribution recognization.The judgment of causality by courts should be considered a variety of elements,includes criminal policy,the spiritual of criminal law,the reason of penalty,the danger of act and the degree of its violation of rules,the force of act to the result and the concept of people.