法定刑是量刑思维的起点,是量刑决定的法律限制,是罪刑均衡实现的前提。以前的研究突出强调了司法过程中对于罪刑均衡原则的贯彻,忽视了法定刑在立法配置上的均衡要求,不能以罪刑均衡原则以及相关的刑罚理论动态视之,导致量刑过程过于僵化而机械,不知进退。法定刑配置应当契合刑法保护法益之目的,与抽象的犯罪行为之可谴责性相匹配,在经验性该当理论的指导下遵循法定刑配置均衡原则、采取序列或比例式的配比匹配法定刑,以期达到法定刑配置的内外均衡。 Legal punishment is the starting point of sentencing mindset and the legal restriction of sentencing decision, which is the precondition of achieving the balance of crime and penalty. Previous studies have highlighted the implementation of the principle of equal balance of crimes and punishments in the judicial process, neglected the equalization requirement of legal punishment in legislative disposition, the principle of balance of crimes and punishment and the related theory of punishment, which led to the process of sentencing being too rigid and the mechanical, I do not know retreat. The disposition of legal penalty should accord with the purpose of the protection of law and interests of criminal law, match with the condemnation of abstract criminal behavior, follow the principles of disposition equalization of legal penalty under the guidance of empirical theory, and adopt sequence or proportional matching to legal punishment, In order to achieve the legal punishment of internal and external balance.