华北水利水电大学学报（社会科学版）

终身监禁是宽严相济刑事政策下对贪污罪和受贿罪慎用死刑的重大理论创新和制度创新，在慎用死刑、削减死刑罪名的趋势下，终身监禁扩大适用范围是其发展的必然趋势。探索终身监禁扩大适用范围的路径，应对比借鉴域外国家立法经验，考察国外司法现状。终身监禁扩大适用范围的正当性在于其兼具报应和预防的刑罚功能，在死刑改革背景下承担着限制和替代死刑的使命。终身监禁应在严格限制适用条件的前提下构建扩大适用体系，同时以特赦制度作为救济途径，彰显刑法的人道主义精神，对罪犯进行教育和改造。

Life imprisonment is a major theoretical and institutional innovation in the careful use of death penalty for corruption and bribery crimes under the criminal policy of combining leniency with severity. Under the trend of careful use of death penalty and reduction of death penalty crimes, it is an inevitable trend of its development to expand the scope of application of life imprisonment. To explore the path of expanding the scope of application of life imprisonment, we should compare and learn from the legislative experience of foreign countries and examine the judicial status quo of foreign countries. The justification of expanding the scope of application of life imprisonment lies in its function of both retribution and prevention, and it undertakes the mission of restricting and replacing death penalty under the background of death penalty reform. The application system of life imprisonment should be expanded under the premise of strictly restricting the application conditions, and the amnesty system should be used as the remedy way to highlight the humanitarian spirit of criminal law and educate and reform criminals.