Connected Crimes in Iran Penal Code: Challenges and Solutions

Document Type : Original Article

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Criminal Law and Criminology, Kish International Campus, University of Tehran, Kish, Iran

Abstract

Considering Connected Crimes, there is disputes among Law experts and judges as the legislators has neglected them. Connected crimes include committing two or more offending behaviors which have independent components, and several instances of this type of crimes were stated in Iran Penal code including Islamic Penal Code. In some regulations, the legislators stated the case and the rules for passing a sentence, therefore, in some cases it is regarded as one crime with one penalty and in some examples, they just stated the instances without referring to the rules for passing a sentence. As a result, whereas the legislators have ignored the rules for passing sentence for connected crimes, a lot of challenges in penal code and judicial precedent were made in many year including stating different proofs in penal rules, not designating a uniform principal for passing a sentence for this type of crimes, presenting different counselling ideas by the Law departments, issuing different judgements by the judicial authorities and prolongation of hearing.

In this article, the writers will state the challenges, investigate the proper solutions and offer executive

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  • Receive Date: 16 November 2021
  • Revise Date: 26 December 2021
  • Accept Date: 12 January 2022

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