Abstract: After the Wenchuan Earthquake，a wide range of criminal law affairs in the quake hit areas have posed a great challenge to judicial practice.The judicial personnel are faced with a problem of how to apply the leniency-severity policy in an appropriate manner.The Supreme People′s Court also emphasizes that judicial practice must strictly abide by law and serious crimes must be given severe penalty on sufficient lawful basis.But leniency-severity policy must be appropriately applied to specific cases.Only in this way can criminals′ human rights be protected and can they get just and impartial penalty.

Key words: criminal judicial policy, leniency-severity policy, earthquake relief work, prime and punishment accordance