刑事和解是修改后刑诉法规定的特别程序,对于实现当事人权益最大化、节约司法资源以及维护社会和谐稳定等具有重要的意义。为了防止刑事和解被滥用,修改后刑诉法第二百七十七条除了对刑事和解的适用条件和范围进行了详细规定外,该条第二款还规定了适用的除外情形,即犯罪嫌疑人、被告人在五年以内曾经故意犯罪的,不适用刑事和解程序。但是,该规定较为概括,并没有具体说明“五年以内”该从何时起算,导致实务部门理解不一致,给司法实践造成了较大困扰。针对这一问题,笔者从立法原意出发,提出刑事和解除外规定的完善建议。一、实务部门对刑事和解除 Criminal reconciliation is a special procedure stipulated in the amended Criminal Procedure Law, which is of great significance to the realization of the maximization of the rights and interests of the parties involved, saving judicial resources and maintaining social harmony and stability. In order to prevent abuse of criminal reconciliation, the amended Article 277 of the Criminal Procedure Law provides details on the applicable conditions and scope of criminal reconciliation, and the second paragraph of the Article also stipulates the applicable exceptions, namely criminal suspects Where a person or a defendant has intentionally committed a crime within five years, the procedure of criminal reconciliation shall not apply. However, this provision is more general and does not specify “when should it start within five years?”, Which led substantive departments to understand inconsistencies and caused great distress to judicial practice. In response to this problem, the author from the original meaning of the legislation, put forward the criminal and improve the provisions of the proposed termination. First, the substantive departments on the criminal and lifted