西方特别是美国的犯罪治理实践表明,刑事政策的宽严取舍与社会稳定状况相关,社会相对稳定容易助推刑罚福利主义,形成轻缓的刑事政策;社会治安恶化则会导致刑罚福利主义衰弱,刑事政策日趋严厉。这说明,价值理念、刑事政策与社会稳定三者之间有着密切的内在联系。自上世纪80年代始,西方刑罚福利主义思想对我国的刑事政策理论与实践的影响日益显现,进入新世纪以来,这种影响更逐渐占据了主导地位。虽然近年来在日益严峻的犯罪现实面前,刑罚福利主义思潮有些收敛,但刑罚福利主义价值理念仍对我国当前的刑事政策有着广泛而深远的影响,并与我国传统的“治乱世需用重典”思想产生了 The practice of crime control in the West, especially in the United States, shows that the leniency of criminal policy is related to the social stability. Relatively stable society tends to boost the penalty welfare and form a gentle criminal policy. The deterioration of social security leads to the weakness of the penalty welfareism, Criminal policy is getting tougher. This shows that there is a close internal connection between the values, criminal policy and social stability. Since the 1980s, the influence of Welfare Welfare Theory of the West on the theory and practice of criminal policy in our country has become increasingly evident. Since the beginning of the new century, such influence has gradually taken the lead. Although in recent years the increasingly grim reality of crime, the trend of the welfare of the penalty has been somewhat convergent, the concept of the value of the penalty welfareism still has a broad and far-reaching impact on the current criminal policy in our country and is in line with the traditional code of “ ”Thought has arisen