| 英文摘要 |
The criminalization of preparatory acts constitutes a significant legislative technique employed by legislators to advance the scope of criminal punishment. Currently, academic discourse exhibits considerable confusion regarding the definition of the scope of preparatory acts, alongside a trend towards overly broad interpretation, which warrants critical re-examination. To rationally define its boundaries, it is necessary to thoroughly examine the legislative purpose. The criminalization of preparatory acts embodies a preventive criminal law philosophy, emphasizing the risk that preparatory acts pose of instigating subsequent offenses. By adopting this legislative model, legislators can fill in the gaps in punishment and relieve the prosecution's burden of proof. Consequently, many criminal charges are merely conform to the characteristics of substantive preparatory acts and should be excluded. Using the independent protection of an intermediate legal interest as a criterion, the criminalization of preparatory acts can be categorized into two types: advance protection of legal interests and early punishment. For the advance protection type, the interpretative function of the barrier-layer legal interest must be fully utilized, and then the back-layer legal interest should be used for secondary limitation. For the early punishment type, beyond assessing the abstract risk posed by the preparatory act to the legal interest, it is also necessary to examine its connection to the subsequent act of execution, thereby clarifying the scope of punishment. |