A Synthetic Reading of the Concept of Crime and its Role in the Pragmatics of the Preventive Measures for State Crimes

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1 Ph.D. Student, Allameh Tabatabaʼi University

2 Professor of Law, Allameh Tabatabaʼi University

10.52547/LAWRESEARCH.23.89.33

Abstract

Despite of various discussions regarding the concept of crime in the State crime approach, to accept crime as harm and define state crime as a harmful behavior of the state, is the prevailing attitude in this field today. Although such interpretation would significantly extend the domain of the states’ responsibility for the decisions they make and the measures they take, practically it could lay the groundwork for the exclusion of state crime as a related issue to the topics of criminology and criminal justice. The same reading and interpretation, however, have resulted in the impossibility of choosing some useful and reliable guidelines to prevent the state crimes. In this regard, the leading question of the present study would try to probe which reading of the concept and meaning of crime can better prepare the ground for taking the preventive measures apropos the state crimes. The study at hand picks an analytical-descriptive method and draws on the library resources to argue for the issue that the acceptance of a synthetic approach for crime that can well include the legal and criminological nature of such behavior can by and large make selection of appropriate and effective controlling/preventive measures for the state crimes possible. Hereupon, the definition of the state crime as an institutional deviation that brings about human rights violation has been offered as a free one in the approach of state crime

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  • Receive Date: 26 September 2018
  • Revise Date: 11 June 2019
  • Accept Date: 06 March 2020

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