《刑法的基础》是已故日本东京大学名誉教授平野龙一博士(1920-2004)所著,主要收录了其在1960年之后发表的11篇论文。该书自1966年出版以来,已经十五次重印,历久弥新,属于经得起时间检验的经典著作。这本书中所提倡的机能主义刑法观,对当时在日本具有压倒性地位的德国规范刑法学提出了巨大挑战,并为形成日本不同 The basis of the criminal law was written by Dr. Ryuichi Hirano (1920-2004), an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, and included 11 papers published after 1960. Since its publication in 1966, the book has been reprinted fifteen times and has become a classic that can stand the test of time. The functionalist notion of criminal law advocated in this book poses a great challenge to the German normative criminal law that was overwhelmingly occupied by Japan at that time and was a great challenge to the formation of Japan