激情犯罪，在现实暴力性犯罪中占有很大的比例，许多突发性、偶然性的暴力犯罪其实都和激情犯罪相关联。然而，关于激情犯罪的两个基本问题无论是刑法学界还是实务界至今也未形成较为通说的观点：到底什么样的行为算是激情犯罪？激情犯罪的量刑原则是什么？因为激情犯罪人要承担刑事责任首先就要确定其属于激情犯罪，而对于激情犯罪的定义就是必须解决的问题；而对其量刑的原则就必须在确定刑事责任的基础上才能进行确立，犯罪人承担刑事责任的大小是影响最终量刑幅度的主要因素。因此合理确定激情犯罪的刑事责任是正确处理激情犯罪案件的重要环节。激情犯罪在其社会危害性、人身危险性方面都有不同于一般犯罪类型的特殊之处，如何进行分析进而准确认定激情犯罪的刑事责任就成为关键的问题。本文试图能为正确认识激情犯罪，公正认定其刑事责任提供一些有益的探索本文分为三大部分。第一部分主要从激情犯罪的渊源和本质特征上对其进行定义，值得一提的是本文以唯物辩证法的基本理论从客观决定论这个全新的视角去解读激情犯罪的定义，以期能体现本质特征。第二部分以规范责任论和人格责任论为主要理论依据，从激情犯罪的社会危害性和人身危险性两个方面解析其刑事责任，构建起分析确定刑事责任的路径结构。第三部分以有较大社会关注度的药家鑫案作为标本演示认定激情犯罪刑事责任的完整过程，进而为探索规范的量刑说理提供一些思路借鉴。

Crimes of passion, account for a large proportion in the reality of violent crimes, many sudden, accidental and violent crime is associated and crime of passion. However, the two basic questions about crime of passion of whether criminal law academic and practical circles has not formed a more general point of view: what kind of behavior is a crime of passion? What is the principle of sentencing crime of passion? Because the crime of passion to bear criminal responsibility we must first determine which belongs to the crime of passion, and definition of the crime of passion is the need to solve the problem; and determine whether the sentencing principles must be carried out to determine the criminal responsibility in the basis of determining, offender liable size are the main factors influencing the final sentencing amplitude. Therefore, reasonably determine the criminal responsibility of the crime of passion is very important to correctly handle the case of crime of passion. Crime of passion in its social harmfulness, personal danger has different characteristic from the general crime type, how to carry on the analysis and accurate identification of criminal responsibility of crime of passion has become a key problem. The author hopes that this thesis can correct understanding of crime of passion, justice cognizance of criminal responsibility to provide some beneficial exploration This paper is divided into three parts. The first part mainly from the origin and essential feature of crime of passion on the definition, it is worth mentioning is defined based on the fundamental theory of materialist dialectics from a new perspective to interpret crime of passion, in order to reflect the essential characteristics. In the second part of the normative theory of culpability and personal responsibility theory as the main theoretical basis, from the two aspects of crime of passion of social harm and personal risk analysis of its criminal responsibility, construct an analysis to determine the path structure of criminal responsibility. In the third part of the greater degree of social concern of Yao's case as a specimen demonstrates that the complete process of passion crime criminal responsibility, and then provide some reference for exploring standardized sentencing reasoning.