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Purposes of the Criminal Law 刑法的作用 theories of punishment -惩罚的相关理论  The broad purposes of the criminal law are, of course, to make people do what society regards as desirable and to prevent them from doing what society considers to be undesirable. Since criminal law is framed in terms of imposing punishment for bad conduct, rather than of granting rewards for good conduct, the emphasis is more on the prevention of the undesirable than on the encouragement of the desirable. 刑法的主要目的是使人们去做那些社会认为合法的行为，并阻止他们去做不合法的行为. 由于刑法制定的目的是为了惩罚不法行为而非鼓励合法行为,故其侧重点更多是在预防不法行为的发生,而非鼓励合法行为.  In determ