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机构地区： 大连海事大学法学院

出　　处： 《大连海事大学学报（社会科学版）》 2005年第1期11-15,共5页

摘　　要： 中国古代罚金刑并非起源于唐虞时代的“金作赎刑” ,而是萌芽于西周中后期的“货罚”。所以 ,中国古代的罚金刑的起源与西方古代社会罚金刑的起源有本质区别 :西方古代社会在国家产生伊始罚金刑就被大量地规定在刑律中 ,并在刑罚体系中发挥重要作用 ;而中国古代社会在国家产生了五六百年后罚金刑才形成萌芽 ,其在刑罚体系中属于极不重要的刑种。之所以产生这种区别 ,其根本原因在于中西方古代社会商品经济发达的程度不同以及由此所决定的个体权利意识不同和国家的刑罚观不同。 The fine penalty of ancient society of China could not be traced to “atone for crime at Tang-Yu times”. The real seed of fine penalty of ancient China is “d epriving criminal of property”. So there is a difference between the origin of f ine penalty of ancient China and that of the western society: in the western soc iety the criminal law stipulated many fine penalties as soon as the state came into b eing, and the fine played an important role in the penal system; while in th e an cient China the fine penalty just sprouted after 5 or 6 hundred of years when th e state came into being. The basic reason is that there were different levels o f development of commodity economy, different consciousness of individual right and different criminal idea between ancient China and the ancient western socie ty.

关 键 词： 中国 西方 罚金刑 古代 刑罚体系 商品经济

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