Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

Authors

• jalal din qiasi ¹
• abbas ghalebzadeh ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Qom University

² PhD student in Criminal Law and Criminology

Abstract

Abstract

The prank call crime refers to a new crime with a certain nature that using telephones and other telecommunication devices plays role in its formation. In some cases, the perpetrators commit other criminal acts besides prank call, like insult and threat, and in some other cases, these devices are employed just to commit the above-mentioned crimes. There are differences of opinion in distinguishing the application of the rules of multiplicity, whether material or spiritual, or not applying these rules in case of committing this crime simultaneously with other crimes like insult or threat, so that some in judicial procedure and legal doctrine consider it as “special criminal title” and with the certain criminal title of “prank call”. Others consider spiritual and group multiplicity as material multiplicity. In this condition, besides the above-mentioned cases, there is the idea of multiplicity of results; while reviewing the current arguments in judicial procedure and legal doctrine, as well as analyzing the elements of the prank call crime, insult, or threat, the authors agree to accept another approach, i.e. a combination of spiritual multiplicity (multiplicity of titles) and material multiplicity, discussed in detail in the text of the paper.

Keywords

• Keywords: Prank Call
• Spiritual Multiplicity
• Material Multiplicity
• Multiplicity of Results
• Special Criminal Title

Main Subjects

• Criminal Law