Criminal Law
Mostafa Jafari; Hassan Alipour
Abstract
The municipality, as a prominent item of the public law legal person, sometimes on one hand violates the provisions of urban planning by granting licenses, causes the structure of high buildings and the stabilization of air pollution, and on the other hand, as one of the institutions that is obliged ...
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The municipality, as a prominent item of the public law legal person, sometimes on one hand violates the provisions of urban planning by granting licenses, causes the structure of high buildings and the stabilization of air pollution, and on the other hand, as one of the institutions that is obliged to prevent air pollution, with Failure to perform its legal duties will cause and intensify air pollution. Air pollution is one of the main causes of physical injuries (crimes) in Iran. The position of the municipality as a responsible and punishable perpetrator of air pollution crimes depends on establishing a longitudinal link between the conduct of the crime, criminal liability, and ultimately the penal punishment. The municipality, both as a representative and as an activity, shows its behavior in its act and omission form in the perpetration and causation figure in creating air pollution and for this reason, there is no difference between the behavior of a municipality as a legal entity and the behavior of a natural person. However, knowing the municipality as a criminal has two conditions: First, creating a reference relationship between crime and air pollution and then air pollution with municipal action. Second, the existence of elements of criminal responsibility of legal entities. In the absence of any of these two conditions, the behavior of the municipality has no responsibility. Using library sources and descriptive analytical method, this article has come to the conclusion that the criminal responsibility of the municipality for crimes caused by air pollution is possible with the sum of the two aforementioned conditions in Iran's criminal system. The judicial procedure should take a fundamental and innovative approach in order to hold the municipality responsible for its actions within the scope of the municipality's powers and duties.
Criminal Law
majid sadeghnejad naeiny; Sakineh Khanalipour Vajargah
Abstract
Duress as one of the obstacles to criminal Liability is mentioned in Article 151 of the Islamic Penal Code. According to this article, in ta'zir, the duressor is sentenced to the punishment of the perpetrator. In Hodoud and Qesas, they are sentenced according to the relevant regulations. Although this ...
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Duress as one of the obstacles to criminal Liability is mentioned in Article 151 of the Islamic Penal Code. According to this article, in ta'zir, the duressor is sentenced to the punishment of the perpetrator. In Hodoud and Qesas, they are sentenced according to the relevant regulations. Although this article refers the duressor's sentence to the relevant regulations, but nowhere in the Islamic Penal Code is this presumption mentioned and in fact the law is silent in this regard.The main question of this research is what is the punishment of a duressor in Hodoud (for example, duress another to drink intoxicants)? In this article, we will analyze lawyers' opinions and jurists' fatwas in this regard with an analytical-interpretive method.The results of the research indicate that due to the silence of the legislator in this regard and also the lack of an explicit jurisprudential text or fatwa in this regard, different approaches to punish the duressor will be conceivable. Finally, it can be consider as a accessory and be punished by article 127 of the Islamic Penal Code
Mohammadjafar Habibzadeh; Mahmood Saber; Hossien Samie
Abstract
The demands of today's world and the Commitment of dangerous and harmful crimes by legal entities and the need for appropriate compensation for victims of damage and judicial -criminological considerations, have convinced legal systems such to accept criminal responsibility of legal entities. ...
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The demands of today's world and the Commitment of dangerous and harmful crimes by legal entities and the need for appropriate compensation for victims of damage and judicial -criminological considerations, have convinced legal systems such to accept criminal responsibility of legal entities. It is clear for credit institutions including banks, as well as other legal entities under certain conditions, to be eligible for criminal responsibility. But accepting criminal liability for credit institutions as legal entities, is accompanied by this fundamental question: what are the conditions and criteria for assigning criminal liability to credit institutions as legal entities? Representing approach as a criteria for attributing criminal liability to credit institutions as legal entities, is approved by the Iranian legislature in Article 143 of the Islamic Penal Code, but due to flaws in this theory, including the difficulty of identifying responsible individuals and complicated structure of credit institutions, accepting of corporate responsibility theory is consistent with the basics of Identifying of criminal liability for credit institutions as legal entities and the principles of justice and fairness. At the same time, imposing criminal liability on the banks and credit institutions, requires that the legal representative of bank or credit union, "the" or "in the interests" of the bank or credit union as a legal person, commits a crime. The concept of legal representative of Credit Institutions, realization time of legal personality of governmental and non-governmental Credit Institutions, the Conditions of criminal liability realization, have ambiguities that critical analysis of them, is concerned with this article.
farid mohseni; Hesam Ebrahimvand
Abstract
Identifying criminal liability for legal entities is one of controversial issues in criminal law. A party is considered as one of the most important legal entities whose criminal liability is important, from different aspects. The paper primarily defines concept and background of political parties; then, ...
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Identifying criminal liability for legal entities is one of controversial issues in criminal law. A party is considered as one of the most important legal entities whose criminal liability is important, from different aspects. The paper primarily defines concept and background of political parties; then, discusses legal conditions for activity of political parties, after explaining their legal personality and determining the time for formation of legal personality in substantive and affirmative terms. Necessity of identifying criminal liability for political parties, and also foundations of such kind of liability from theoretical and legal points of view are among those subjects discussed, in the paper. Meanwhile, making separation in activities pertaining to political parties, some strategies have been proposed to determine criminal liability for political parties; so that, uncertainties and objections to Islamic Penal Code in explaining criminal liability would be removed. Following subjects are among those issues dealt with here, in the paper: rules and regulations governing crimes performed by political parties, identification of responsible person in those crimes pertaining to political parties, correlation between penalties imposed on real person along with legal entity, those penalties imposable in this respect, and the way these penalties are imposed. Also, references have been made to some articles of the “Law on Activities of Political Parties and Political Groups”; while, making emphasis on necessity of its review and prioritizing legal approach over other political categories, etc.
Farid Mohseni; Nasir Malakooti
Abstract
Causation, being one of the essential elements of criminal and civil liabilities, is the meeting point of these two forms of liabilities. Unless causation is proved, neither of these two forms of liabilities would come into play. However, there is a fundamental difference in areas of criminal and civil ...
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Causation, being one of the essential elements of criminal and civil liabilities, is the meeting point of these two forms of liabilities. Unless causation is proved, neither of these two forms of liabilities would come into play. However, there is a fundamental difference in areas of criminal and civil liabilities as to the concept of causation. Thus, in area of former, causation must be analyzed through criminal methodology. This is given to the fact the each area of liabilities has its own means and necessities and therefore each type can only be reviewed on the basis of each respective structure. While, it is accepted that compensation would be a consequence of bearing criminal liability, invoking criminal liability is based on standards sourced from criminal principals. This paper will endeavor to provide a comprehensive criminal overview of the causation, its elements, norms as well as challenges of such essential element of criminal liability in light of Islamic thoughts, judicial verdicts and criminal legislations, particularly the new Islamic Penalty Code ratified in 1392 .
Mohammad Jafar Habibzade; Mohsen Sharifi; Mohammad Isaei tafreshi; Mohammad Farajiha
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For reasons including inability to impose some punishments,violating the principles of being personal punishments, not realization of punishment goal, specificity principle, constraints on procedures and most importantly, lack of guilt evidences, in negation, as well as arguments ...
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For reasons including inability to impose some punishments,violating the principles of being personal punishments, not realization of punishment goal, specificity principle, constraints on procedures and most importantly, lack of guilt evidences, in negation, as well as arguments such as justice and criminology fact, difficulty of discovering the true culprit, scrutiny of the members and stakeholders in selection of managers, reduction of punishments for freedom hampering or injury of managers and finally compensation for damages inflicted on victims in a favorite manner have been expressed in proving criminal liability of the legal entities. Counterpoint approaches impact on the legal systems was so that until the twentieth century, the legal entities' liability was put in doubt as a principle. But since the second half this century following the legal entities activity scope, especially the companies, and rise of crimes against environment, organized crimes, specifically transnational crimes, crime in the field of transportation and industry in general caused the leading countries as Canada, England, United States,Netherlands and the Europe Council to accept and regulate the criminal liability of the legal entities as a must, despite of criminal law shortcomings, through relying on theories such as vicarious liability, secondary character, employers and superiors' responsibility, collective guilt and criminal liability of the legal persons. Alnahayah the movement for criminal liability of the legal entities, made Iran to join the system; so that inability for in the first step cyber crimes 2009 in particular, and in the second step for the Islamic penal law, in general were accepted. Scrutiny in transformation of the Iranian law in this regard, specifically in the above mentioned bill has been the effort of the present paper.
