Legal Criminal Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Food Security Cases with Regard to Green Criminology

Rezapour Parshkoohi, Masoumeh; Nikomanesh, Amrullah; Samavati, Abbas

doi:10.22034/jccj.2024.430751.1443

Legal Criminal Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Food Security Cases with Regard to Green Criminology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Masoumeh Rezapour Parshkoohi ¹

Amrullah Nikomanesh ²

Abbas Samavati ³

¹ PhD Student, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Imam Khomeini Memorial Branch, Rey, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding Author)

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Imam Khomeini Memorial Branch, Rey, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/jccj.2024.430751.1443

Abstract

Food security is one of the most important issues in the life of human societies, which has various aspects. The importance of this issue is so much that some behaviors that threaten food security have been criminalized by the legislators. Iran's legislature is no exception to this rule and has criminalized behaviors that threaten food security in various laws. In the present study, which was compiled by descriptive-analytical method, it will be seen that the issue of food security has been taken into consideration, from superior documents such as the constitution and development plans to ordinary laws. The criminal policy that Iran's legislature has adopted for behaviors that threaten food security is in some cases in the form of preventive policy and in some cases in the form of reactive policy. In other words, the Iranian legislature has not adopted a single policy in relation to the criminal policy regarding behaviors that threaten food security.

Keywords

Criminal Policy

Food Security

Green Criminology

Criminalization