犯罪预防就是在犯罪实施前就采取防范措施,使人们避免犯罪,从而达到抑制与减少犯罪,稳定社会秩序之目的。历代统治者都十分重视犯罪预防。朱熹作为“致广大,尽精微,综罗百代”的理学集大成者,在其理学思想体系中亦包含着丰富的犯罪预防思想,提出了“遏人欲于将萌而不使其滋长于隐微之中,以至离道之远”~①的观点,并就犯罪预防提出了许多值得我们借鉴的具体措施。本文拟就朱熹犯罪预防思想作一略述。一、朱熹犯罪预防的理论基础——性善论 Crime prevention is to take precautionary measures before the crime is implemented, so that people avoid crime, so as to achieve the purpose of suppressing and reducing crime and stabilizing social order. The ancient rulers all attached great importance to crime prevention. Zhu Xi as a “generous, subtle, encyclopedic EMI,” a master of science, in his Neo-Confucianism also contains a wealth of crime prevention thinking, put forward a In the subtle, and even far from the point of view ", and put forward a lot of specific measures we can learn from crime prevention. This article intends to make a brief account of Zhu Xi’s crime prevention thinking. First, Zhu Xi’s theoretical basis for crime prevention - theory of kindness