赎刑制度的特点评议与当代价值
A Review of the Characteristics and Contemporary Value of Redemption

赎刑制度是以财物、劳役或身份折抵刑罚的一种刑罚替代方法。发端于夏朝，废止于清代，具有维护国家稳定、保护特权阶层、满足财政经济、体现仁政态度的诸多特点。虽然诞生于封建专制背景下的赎刑制度有着天然的阶级弊端，但制度本身对现代法律而言极具参照价值，有利于从刑事实体法上建立被害人弥补机制、缓和自由刑的存废争议、弥补司法经费不足。重构赎刑制度，与轻罪轻刑化的发展趋势具有同一性，体现了我国对法律本土资源酌水知源、去糟取精的传承态度，为中国特色法治建设开辟新道路。
The redemption system is an alternative method of punishment by exchanging property, labor or status for punishment. It was developed in the Xia Dynasty and abolished in the Qing Dynasty, and had many characteristics of maintaining the stability of the state, protecting the privileged class, satisfying the financial economy, and reflecting the benevolent attitude of government. Although the redemption system was born in the background of feudal autocracy, it has natural class disadvantages, but the system itself has reference value for modern law, which is conducive to establishing a victim compensation mechanism in substantive criminal law, easing the controversy over the retention or abolition of free sentences, and making up for the lack of judicial funding. The reconstruction of the redemption system is the same as the development trend of lightening the penalty for minor crimes, which reflects our country’s inheritance attitude of knowing the source of the local legal resources and removing the bad ones, and opens up a new path for the construction of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics.