“类型”是各学科都重视的研究方法之一,具有横截性的思考价值。文章首先对类型方法在法学研究中的状态予以考察,以此为背景,进而将这一方法纳入到现代刑法学的视野之中。传统刑法学极度倚重概念思维,对类型思维的关注较为欠缺。事实上,类型思维不仅具有明显的开放性,从而更容易容纳合目的性的考量;而且类型化的思考有利于问题的条分缕析,从而更便于具体、细致地把握生活事实;不仅如此,类型化的思考还能够配合事实关系的实际样态,妥当地掌握所谓的中间形态或混合形态;更为重要的,类型思维还是一种价值性的思考,它能诉诸明白的价值判断,并能清晰地显示整个体系的意义脉络。类型思维的上述特征,充分显示了其作为概念式思考的补充方法的可能意义,值得认真对待。立足于上述知识背景,文章进一步讨论了类型思维在刑法上的贯彻路径。在作者看来,任何刑法规范的建构,都是从经验事实中抽象法类型的过程,而任何刑法规范的阐释与运用,都是法类型还原为生活事实的过程,是两者相互靠近乃至形成对接的过程。因此,类型思维隐含于刑法规范形成与适用的始终,指引着刑事立法与司法的内在操作。在此种“规范类型论”的线索上,类型思维将在具体规范建构、体系化建设、刑法解释、类推、不确定概念与概括条款的适用等各个侧面得以展开。 “Type ” is one of the most important research methods in all disciplines, with the transitive thinking value. The article first examines the status of the type method in jurisprudence research and uses this as a background to further incorporate this method into the field of modern criminal jurisprudence. Traditional criminal law relies heavily on conceptual thinking, and concerns about type thinking are relatively lacking. In fact, the type of thinking not only has obvious openness, so it can more easily accommodate the objective consideration; and the type of thinking is conducive to the issue of bar-line analysis, so that more specific and detailed grasp of life facts; not only that, the type of Thinking also fits in with the actual patterns of factual relations and properly grasps the so-called intermediate or mixed forms; more importantly, type thinking is still a value-based thinking that can resort to explicit value judgments and clearly Shows the context of the whole system. The above characteristics of type thinking fully demonstrate its possible significance as a complementary approach to conceptual thinking and deserve serious consideration. Based on the above knowledge background, the article further discusses the type of thinking in the criminal law to implement the path. In the author’s view, the construction of any norms of criminal law is the process of abstracting the types of law from the facts of experience. However, the interpretation and application of any norms of criminal law are the process by which the types of law are restored to the facts of life, and they are close to each other and even formed Docking process. Therefore, the type of thinking is implicit in the formation and application of criminal law norms, guiding the internal operation of criminal legislation and judicature. On this clue of “normative type theory,” type thinking will be carried out in all aspects of specific normative construction, systematic construction, criminal law interpretation, analogy, the concept of uncertainty and the application of general provisions.