A Penological Investigation of International Crimes

Beside the internal micro and macro offences, from the early days, human community has permanently faced international offences and crimes such as war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. During the past years, extensive efforts have been made to fight against such crimes and criminals. In this article, it is assumed that individuals and groups that are in charge of these crimes should be broughtperpetrators to justice and punished based on their responsibilities. Because the international criminal law is still afflicted with some kinds of problems related to the lack of legality of penalties, in this study, some penalties that should be applied for such cases are investigated. It seems that the current system of international criminal penalties, does not match these crimes and it is necessary that the international community finds new remedies for this incompetence in order to establish justice and security in the world. For this purpose, the international community should either change current penalties or define theoretical basis and specific purposes for implemented penalties against international crimes