英美国家一般习惯上把保释理解为被告人的权利，而大陆法国家则习惯上把保释理解为国家权力，或者理解为一种强制措施，保释只是作为停止羁押或羁押理由消除以后的一种处理方式。这种观念上的分野导致两者在具体制度安排设计上的不同。本书从宏观以及微观上论证了我国取保候审制度存在的缺陷，这些缺陷不是表层的缺陷，而是制度内在机理上的缺陷，无论立法上如何修修补补，也很难使之适应我国现代法治的发展以及刑事诉讼法的改革。笔者以为，较为可行的办法是废除取保候审制度，取而代之为保释制度。In Britain and America, bail is generally explained as the defendant's right; while in civil law countries, bail is usually explained as the nation's right or a kind of coercive measure, in which bail is just a process mode of ceasing the detain or cancelling the detain. Due to such a difference in concept, specific institutional arrangements and designs are different in these two types of countries. From macro and micro perspectives, the book argues some defects existed in the system of obtaining a guarantor pending trial; these defects are not superficial but existed in the inner mechanism of the system; so just the remedy in legislation for these defects cannot make the bail system adapt to the development of modern law and the reform of criminal procedure law. In the author's opinion, the relatively feasible method is to abolish the system of obtaining a guarantor pending trial and replace it with bail system.