严景耀(1905-1976),浙江余姚人,中国著名社会学家、犯罪学家、社会活动家,北京大学国际政治系教授,中国民主促进会的创建人之一。国内学者对严景耀的研究主要涉及其社会学和犯罪学,很少涉及到监狱学。本文试就严景耀的监狱学思想作一个初步的研究。一、严景耀监狱学思想的主要内容1.关于监狱的职能问题。上个世纪20年代,中国的监狱制度正处于变革时代,新式监狱的数量较少,监狱的职能在普通人的心目中仅仅是惩罚的工具,把犯罪人关进监狱就算万事大吉了。严景耀深入 Yan Jingyao (1905-1976), Zhejiang Yuyao, a famous Chinese social scientist, criminologist, social activist, Peking University professor of international politics, one of the founders of the China Association for the Advancement of Democracy. Domestic scholars on Yan Jingyao’s research mainly involves its sociology and criminology, rarely involved in prison science. This article tries to make a preliminary study on Yan Jingyao’s prison thought. First, the main content of Yan Jingyao prison idea 1 on the prison’s function. In the 1920s, the prison system in China was in a period of change. The number of new prisons was small. The function of prisons was nothing more than a punitive tool for ordinary people. It would be fine if the criminals were put in prison. Yan Jingyao in-depth