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In our criminal justice practice, long time, our main focus convicted criminal trial the facts and evidence, the prosecutor general only heavier, extenuating circumstances of general comments and suggestions, the main referee sentencing by the court ex parte decision. Due to historical reasons, the composition of judges exist moral standards and business skills uneven situation, the same facts, different judicial organization, different regions, different eras and even the subject of crime, the verdict is different, some cases the difference between the sentence imposed Ambassador parties and the public can not accept, its social impact has been far exceeded those cases themselves. Imbalance in sentencing perpetrators not only increases the cost of reconstruction, weakened the penalty function, but also caused a direct negation of criminal justice. As the West a famous philosopher said: once unfair trials, it may be more than ten times the consequences of crime. This paper is divided into five chapters on sentencing were discussed. The first chapter introduces the concept of sentencing, the role; second chapter focuses on analysis of the reasons for the imbalance sentencing, sentencing tion emphasis from doctrine, ignored in the sentencing penalties individualized sentencing and similar cases the deviation between the three aspects of the analysis; The third chapter discusses the discretion of the judge the situation, the presence of judicial discretion and judges the reasonableness of Discretion and sentencing normalized relations; fourth chapter shows that our criminal jurisprudence and judicial practice of criminal judicial interpretation of criminal sentencing jurisprudence on the role of standardization; fifth chapter discussed in the previous chapters, based on the status of legal punishment, the punishment to normalized relations with the sentencing standardization of the sort. Sentencing Justice is the ultimate expression of criminal justice, and only reflected in sentencing just and equitable criminal justice is the real meaning of criminal justice, in a certain sense, the sentencing justice is more important than justice conviction. To improve this situation, the Supreme Court began in 2005 to study for sentencing reform. End of 2008, the CPC Central Committee will determine sentencing reform the judicial reform project. The main purpose of the reform is to further standardize penalties for criminal cases judges discretion by sentencing into court procedures, enhance the openness and transparency of sentencing, uniform law applicable standards, to better implement the criminal policy of combining punishment with leniency. In the long run, the smooth implementation of standardized sentencing, will be more conducive to criminal punishment according to the law accurately, more conducive to the protection of citizens' rights of action according to the law, more conducive to maintaining social harmony and stability, more conducive to enhance the credibility of the judiciary. The author is a grassroots criminal justice personnel, standardization of sentencing reform process, but also deeply appreciate its practical value and practical significance. The author wrote this article, it is only working for many years engaged in a criminal trial a little experience.
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