An examination of iranian penal policies to deal with administrative and economic corruptions, emphasizing the islamic penal code that's been adopted in 2013

Abstract

Economic crime imposes very costs to society and because of its complexity detection and prosecution in difficult. So required some prehensive criminal policy. This research try to survey Iran's criminal policy about economic crimes with emphasis on new penal code, enacted in 2013. The results indicate that legislator has not been defined "economic crimes" term but is considered its instances according to articles 47, 36,109 of new penal code. Fighting against Economic Crimes must be including preventive measures and criminal reaction. Preventive measures has been coherent by dictating of United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and fighting against Corruption internal code (2011) but Iran's legislator has not taken coherent policy to fighting economic crimes by criminal reaction . Although the new penal Code adopted some strict against this crimes but we couldn’t see a coherent policy against its;

Keywords: criminal policy, economic crimes, economic corruption, Islamic Penal Code
that's been adopted in 2013.