Research On The Reform Of Chinese Criminal Jury System Under The Background Of Judicial Reform

The criminal jury system is an important part of the people’s jury system in China.Citizens can participate in the criminal trial process and exercise the right to hear cases through the criminal jury system.Since the establishment of the criminal jury system,it has been in safeguarding citizens’ rights and realizing judicial modernization.Both played an irreplaceable role.Specifically,in the criminal proceedings,the absorption of ordinary citizens as criminal jurors to participate in the trial of cases is conducive to the realization of judicial democracy,and it also has a major impact on the establishment of public participation in judicial mechanisms to prevent judicial corruption and judicial tyranny.In addition,the criminal jury system can actively implement the mass line in the trial process,ensure the procedural fairness,and fully embody political democracy.At the time of the revision of the law in the late Qing Dynasty,the jury system was introduced into the judicial system of our country,but its value was not fully reflected.In 2015,a new round of pilot reform of the people’s jury system took the lead in 50 local courts in ten provinces of China marking the official opening of a new round of jury reform in China.The pilot reform has carried out a relatively comprehensive adjustment and improvement of the current people’s jury system.However,in the judicial practice,the effective operation of the criminal jury system still has some problems that cannot be ignored.For example,the criminal jury system lacks the constitutional basis,the scope of election is relatively narrow,the phenomenon of "without jury" is prominent,the management method needs to be changed,and the performance of performance is guaranteed.The system needs to be improved and other issues.Therefore,it is extremely urgent to reform and improve China’s criminal jury system.On the basis of clarifying the basic concept of criminal jury system,this paper takes the pilot reform of the people’s jury system of the Supreme People’s Court as an opportunity to deeply explore the current dilemma faced by China’s criminal jury system.It also examines the application of criminal jury system in major countries in East Asia(Japan,South Korea)and the experience of reform.On this basis,it puts forward the reform concept of criminal jury system in China,for example,clarifying the constitutional status of the criminal jury system,strengthening the social propaganda of the criminal jury system,adjusting the scope of jury selection,improving the jury’s participation mechanism,innovating jury management,and improving the jury’s performance guarantee system,etc.With a view to promoting the reform of China’s criminal jury system,it is beneficial to the advancement of judicial reform in China.