空想社会主义思想从产生到形成的三百多年时间里，空想社会主义刑法思想一直在默默地发展着，虽然没有得到足够的重视，但是不能不说空想社会主义刑法思想在西方刑法思想史上拥有重要的一席之地。空想社会主义刑法思想并不是凭空产生的，资本主义生产方式的出现是它产生的前提条件，无产者的需要是它产生的深层次原因，而人文主义思想是它产生的思想条件。死缓思想、特殊预防与一般预防思想、累犯思想以及刑法的基本原则适用刑法人人平等原则，是空想社会主义刑法思想的主要内容。　　　空想社会主义刑法思想从产生之初就具备很多独特之处。首先它是以公有制为基础的，所以它要求实质的平等而非形式上的平等；其次它是人民的法律，所以它要求简单易懂，不存在欺骗性；最后它使用了批判性思维，揭示了资本主义刑法虚伪的本质。　　　空想社会主义刑法思想是马克思刑法思想不可缺少的理论来源之一，它与马克思主义刑法思想在批判资产阶级刑法思想方面具有一致性。同时空想社会主义刑法思想还承前启后对刑事古典学派和刑事社会学派产生了一定的影响。空想社会主义刑法思想与刑事古典学派在死刑问题和刑法作用等问题上有相通性，而刑事社会学派与它则在社会因素对犯罪的影响方面有思想上的相似性。　　　由于历史条件等原因的限制，空想社会主义者对未来社会的设想存在不少缺陷和局限。首先，他们的法治思想没有真正认识到刑法的阶级性；其次，空想社会主义者的理论基础是唯心主义，不可能也没有真正认识到法的内容是由特定物质生活条件决定的；再次，他们的刑法思想还存在重刑主义、平均主义这样的糟粕。　　　空想社会主义刑法思想也是现代社会主义刑法思想的来源之一，这些思想之中的部分内容至今仍未过时，空想社会主义者对反对死刑主张的一些简单的论述，提出的立法应当重视人民的意志和利益，法律的内容应当简洁的思想对我国刑事法制建设和刑事政策改革具有重要的现实意义。　　　空想社会主义刑法思想虽然因为现实的局限而流于空想，但是它的产生和存在必有原因和价值，我们应当，科学地理解它，理智地对待它，使其思想精华发扬光大。

Utopian socialism developed for more than 300 years. Utopian socialism ideology of criminal law has been quietly developing, although it did not receive enough attention. But the utopian socialist ideology of criminal law in the history of western criminal law still has a space. Utopian socialism ideology of criminal law is not created out of thin air. The capitalist production mode is the precondition of utopian socialism thoughts of criminal law. The profond reasons of utopian socialism ideology of criminal law is the need of proletarian class. The ideological basis of utopian socialism ideology of criminal law is the humanism thought. Reprieve thought, special prevention, general prevention thought, recidivism thought and equality principles of criminal law, is the main content of utopian socialism ideology of criminal law.　　　They are the main contents of utopian socialism ideology of criminal law.　　　Utopian socialism ideology of criminal law have many unique from the beginning. First, it is based on public ownership, so it requires substantial equality, not formal equality; secondly it is the law of the people, so it is simple and easy to understand, there is no deceptive; finally it uses critical thinking, to reveal the hypocrisy of capitalist law.　　　Utopian socialism ideology of criminal law is one of the theoretical sources of Marx's ideology of criminal law. It is consistent with the Marx doctrine in the criticism of the bourgeois ideology of criminal law. At the same time the utopian socialist ideology of criminal law also affected the criminal classical school and sociological of criminal school. Utopian socialism ideology of criminal law and the criminal classical school are interlinked in the issue of the death penalty and criminal action and so on. School of criminal sociology are similar with the thought of utopian socialist ideology of criminal law about the social factors of crime theory.　　　Because of the historical conditions, utopian socialist conception of future society has some defects and limitations. They can't realize the class nature of criminal law. The theoretical basis of utopian socialist idealism so they could not really aware of the contents of law is decided by the living condition of specific substances. At the same time, they also retain the criminal penalty doctrine and absolute equalitarianism thought.　　　Utopian socialism ideology of criminal law is also a source of the modern socialist ideology of criminal law, some part of the contents of these ideas has not outdated until now. Utopian socialists' some simple exposition that about to against the death penalty and they have the though that legislation should pay attention to the people's will and interests and they advocated legal content should be concise and transplantation of law must be cautious. These thoughts have got the important practical significance to the construction of criminal legal system and reformation of criminal policy in China.　　　Because of the practical limitation utopian socialism ideology of criminal law to be unrealistic, but its emergence and existence have a reason and value. We should understanding it scientifically, treat it rationally and to carry forward its thought.