Abstract: Procedural violation, a pretty common phenomenon in China’ s criminal action，to a harge extent results in thatthe current criminal procedure is a “soft”law without sanction imposed on violating its regulations, that is, no legal con-sequence for procedural violation. Therefore, the Law of Criminal Procedure has already lost its binding effect as a law should have, and even is reduced to a regulation-like announcement or warning. If the law of Criminal Procedure is to bea genuine law, it should be injected with the element of sanction-a factor indispensible for a law. And above all, deter-mined by the unique advantage of the procedural sanction, the injection of sanction should get on a track of “concentrat-ing on procedural sanction”

Key words: Criminal Action, Procedural Sanction, Substantive Sanction, Procedural Violation

摘要： 在中国的刑事诉讼中，程序违法现象极为普遍，这在很大程度上是因为，现行的刑事诉讼法是一部缺乏制裁机制即违反之后没有法律后果的“软”法。刑事诉讼法基本上已经丧失了作为法律所应当具有的约束力，甚至沦落为规则的宣示或告诫。欲使刑事诉讼法成为“真正”的法律，就必须为其注入“制裁”这一法律规范的应有要素。而为刑事诉讼法注入“制裁”要素，应走“以程序制裁为中心”的道路，这是由程序制裁的独特优势所决定的。

关键词: 刑事诉讼, 程序制裁, 实体制裁, 程序违法