摘要： 刚刚通过的《中华人民共和国刑法修正案（七）》对于绑架罪进行了部分修正，增设了“情节较轻”的减轻构成规定，这虽然具有重要的意义，但是这一减轻构成的评价、理解与适用本身仍是问题。在对绑架罪的减轻构成从规定方式到下限选择作了评述之后，文章继而讨论了对于“情节较轻”的具体理解问题，特别指出在规定了绑架罪“情节较轻”的构成之后要避免的几种错误倾向。同时，修正案对于绑架罪的加重构成未作任何修改，这十分令人遗憾，而本着严格限制死刑适用的初衷，必须对于现有的加重构成进行严格的限制解释。总体而言，修正案对于绑架罪的修改虽有进步但不彻底，可谓是“半截子的革命”。

关键词: 情节较轻, 法定刑下限, 犯罪中止, 致使被绑架人死亡, 杀害被绑架人

Abstract: The recent amendment VII makes some modification on kidnapping, adding the alleviativing constitution, which hasa great meaning, but the evaluation and apprehension and application of the alleviativing constitution remain the question.After evaluating the regulation mode and the limit choice of the above alleviativing constitution, this article discusses theissue of how to understand the so-called “alleviativing circumstance”，especially pointing out that several wrong intentionafter regulated alleviative constitution. Meanwhile, the amendment VII makes no correction on the aggravating constitu-tion, which is a shame, for arising from the origination of limiting the application of death penalty strictly, the aggravat-ing constitution must be explained limitedly strictly．In a word, the amendment VII makes some progress but not so thor-oughly，which could be a halfway revolution.

Key words: Alleviative Circumstance, The Low Limits of Legal Penalty, Aborted Crime, Leading the Blackmailerto Death, Kill the Blackmailer Intentionally