摘要： 刑法和刑法理论是时代的产物，其更新始终烙印着时代的特征。十九大提出“新时代社会主要矛盾深刻变化”的命题，带来了社会价值观的变化。新时代同时也是人类社会的高科技时代，风险社会、信息社会和全球化社会是新时代和高科技时代的共同特征。为实现新时代人民群众美好生活的需要，积极谨慎应是新时代刑法发展的基本立场。一方面，刑法应正视新时代给传统刑法法益保护的内涵和外延带来的变化，积极融入社会治理的现代化、法治化进程，及时调整刑法的规制范围和力度；另一方面，刑法的发展不能完全脱逸传统自由主义刑法理念的钳制，应努力实现刑法保护和保障机能的平衡和良性发展。与此相应，新时代为刑法理论的创新发展提供了更广阔的维度，在秉持刑法基本原则和传统理念的同时，刑法理论需要开启新的视角，重塑刑法知识的概念以及体系。

关键词: 新时代, 消极刑法观, 积极刑法观, 积极谨慎刑法发展观

Abstract: Criminal law and criminal law theory are the products of the times, and their development is always of the nature of the era.The propositions of the 19th National Congress on“socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era”and“profound changes in major social contradictions in the new era”have brought about changes in social values.The new era is also the high-tech era of human society.Risk society, information society and globalization society are the common characteristics of the new era and the high-tech era.In order to meet the new needs of the peoples better life in the new era, active and prudent should be the basic position of the development of criminal law in the new era.On the one hand, the criminal law should face up to the new changes brought by the new era to the connotation and extension of the protection of legal interests by the traditional criminal law, actively integrate into the process of modernization and legalization of social governance, timely adjust the scope and intensity of the regulation through criminal law; on the other hand, the development of criminal law cannot completely be free from the restraint of traditional liberal criminal law principles.Efforts should be made to achieve a new balance and sound development of the functions of criminal law in human right guarantee and the legal interest protection.Correspondingly, the new era provides a broader dimension for the innovation and development of criminal law theory.While adhering to the basic principles and concepts of criminal law, criminal law theory needs to open a new perspective and reshape the conception and system of criminal law theory.

Key words: New Era, Modest View of Criminal Law, Active View of Criminal Law, Active and Prudent Position of Criminal Law Development