The challenges of criminal responses to the crimes of legal entities in Iran's legal system

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Shahid Beheshti University

2 Imam Sadiq University (AS) and Imam Sadiq University (AS)

10.22099/jls.2023.46563.4891

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Criminal responses to crimes committed by legal entities must be different from the responses to crimes committed by natural persons. Although all these answers are called "punishments"; However, since the nature of legal entities is different from natural persons, the type and function of punishment must also be consistent with the nature of legal entities. Under Article 20 of the Islamic Penal Code approved in 2013, the Iranian criminal legislator has compiled a list of punitive punishments for legal entities, which, from the point of view of the variety of punishments, their effectiveness and the feasibility of their application in different types of legal entities, have theoretical and practical challenges. In this research, with a descriptive-analytical method, the main question is addressed, what are the challenges faced by the punitive punishments mentioned in Article 20 of the Islamic Penal Code 2013 for punishing the crimes of legal entities, and in response to this question, it is concluded that some of The current punishments for legal entities need to be revised, amended and extended. Based on this, new approaches are proposed for the criminal legislator to amend legal articles related to legal entities.

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Journal of Legal Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 07 July 2024

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