Culmination of Law

Culmination of Law

The modeling of legal deforestation in the light of green criminology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mahbube Jamali 1
Alireza taghipour 2
1 Master's degree in Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
2 Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
10.22034/thdad.2024.1987609.2359
Abstract
For a long time, few people were aware of the importance of forests in strategic issues such as water and soil protection, stabilization of biodiversity and the necessity of getting out of the global warming crisis. People easily cut rare trees to meet their basic needs such as fuel. Indiscriminate harvesting of wood continued in historical periods until in the 1340s SH, with the increasing awareness of the importance of forest cover protection, the law of nationalization of forests was approved. This law, which promised the protection of the natural and national heritage of our country, was violated in various ways with the approval of subsequent laws; To the extent that today there is practically a half-dead body left of this law, whose scope is getting narrower every day, like the green velvet of the country's forests. This research shows how the subsequent laws on the nationalization of forests target the spirit and the body of the aforementioned law, and most of the deforestation is done not by the illegal actions of criminals, but by legal means and with a justified appearance; so that its patterns can be extracted. This article identifies and examines the most important of these legal patterns with the content analysis method. Reflecting on these patterns leads us to the lack of real will of the ruling criminal policy to protect forests as the hidden cause of deforestation
Keywords
forest
deforestation
environment
criminology
national

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Culmination of Law
Volume 10, Issue 2
Autumn 2024
Pages 123-159