摘要： 犹豫是刑事司法权行使的固有禀赋之一。刑事司法中的犹豫制度可以分为侦查阶段的移送犹豫、检察阶段的起诉犹豫、裁判阶段的宣告犹豫和执行犹豫等。从保障被追诉人享有不脱离社会权和复归社会权、克服刑事司法中的有限理性和非理性、增进社会的总福利与总价值的实现、维护社会的宽容性与多样性等方面思考，犹豫制度有其重要的现实意义。我国不起诉制度的实证分析表明，现行不起诉制度呈现出不良运行的态势，表明我国刑事司法权的行使带有较强的刚性和机械性。刑事司法改革中需要在司法理念、刑事政策、制度构建等方面进行系统的探索，拓展不起诉制度的适用，以改进刑事司法的僵化禀赋，促进司法的社会效果的提高。

关键词: 犹豫制度 , 不起诉 , 暂缓起诉

Abstract: Suspension is the essential character of the criminal judicial powers．The suspension characters can be observed in several stages of criminal procedure law，including investigation，prosecution，sentencing and judgment enforcement stage．Suspension has very crucial practical meanings to the criminal process in the sense of the rehabilitation of the accused，the prevention of the unreasonableness in the criminal process，the promotion of the society welfare and to keep the tolerance and variety in the whole society．Related empirical research on the non-prosecution in China has illustrated that the current Chinese non-prosecution system in criminal process did not progress quite well，and the criminal judicial process could not meet the need of the various cases．Thus some improvements in the criminal process should be systematically probed，such as judicial concepts，criminal policies and system constructions，to expand the application of nonprosecution in China，which will improve the adaptability of criminal process to the society and to enhance the effect of judicial practice to the society．

Key words: suspension, non-prosecution, suspension of prosecution