Culmination of Law

Culmination of Law

Iran's legislative criminal policy against organized crimes

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Ali Yekta 1
Mehdi Yektai 2
Hossein Yousefvand 3
Khosro Habibi 4
1 Ph.D. in criminology and faculty member of Amin University of Police Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD student in knowledge management, National Defense University, Tehran, Iran
3 PhD student in Sociology, Ahvaz University and faculty member of Amin Law Enforcement Sciences Research Center, Tehran, Iran
4 PhD student in criminology and faculty member at Amin University of Law Enforcement Sciences, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/thdad.2023.561362.2260
Abstract
Organized crime, with its variety of manifestations, complexity in the ways of committing and expanding, has imposed consequences and harmful effects on countries and societies from political, security, economic and cultural aspects, and has created serious challenges at the national and international levels. Most of the countries have considered a specific legislative policy to fight these crimes, considering that the law is considered the first and most formal tool of social control, the legislator can complete the legislative gap by making changes in the law related to organized crime and by criminalizing it. Organized serious and important crimes and predicting punishments and punishments appropriate to these crimes and approving the differential procedure will facilitate the facilitation of executive and judicial criminal policies in an efficient manner.
The current research was written based on the descriptive-analytical method and on the basis of documents and library resources, and in this regard, the obtained information was analyzed by studying international documents and domestic laws, with a practical purpose. The findings of the research showed that Iran's legislative criminal policy, including laws, applicable regulations and other existing binding documents, do not have the necessary coherence and clarity regarding organized crimes. Although the legislature of Iran has dealt with these crimes sporadically and transiently, from the point of view of increasing the punishment or limiting the defense rights of criminals, but the weakness and legal gap in facing this criminal phenomenon is evident and this silence causes problems and damages in the policy process. It has also created an executive and judicial crime.
Keywords
Legislative criminal policy
organized crime
Iran
legislature

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Culmination of Law
Volume 11, Issue 1
Summer 2025
Pages 235-267