刑事和解在尊重被害人、促使加害人认罪悔过改过自新方面,具有恢复失去的正义,尽快平息加害人与被害人之间矛盾的作用。它体现了西方最新的刑罚价值理念——恢复正义理论,也契合了我国的宽严相济刑事政策与构建和谐社会的理念,并非对刑法基本原则的背离,有实行的必要。 Criminal reconciliation has the function of restoring the lost justice and quelling the contradiction between the perpetrator and the victim as soon as possible in respect of the victim and promoting the perpetrator’s confession and repentance. It reflects the concept of the new penalty value in the West - the theory of restoration of justice and the conception of the criminal policy of temper justice with mercy in our country and the idea of ​​building a harmonious society. It is not a departure from the basic principles of criminal law and is necessary for its implementation.