Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence

Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence

The Criminal Act of Government Officials from the Point of View of Legal Criminology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Ph.D Student of Criminal Law and Criminology, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
2 Professor, Aras International Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding Author)
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Meybod Branch, Islamic Azad University, Meybod, Iran.
10.22034/jccj.2025.466738.1597
Abstract
The government is committed to providing public services to citizens, and the criminal acts of government officials leave widespread and public effects due to the wide influence of the government's role. In other words, the omission of a criminal act, if the perpetrator is a government official or has an official position, may cause harm and consequences at macro levels, and this makes it necessary and avoidable to study various aspects of the omission of criminal acts by government officials. has made it impossible On the other hand, since the evaluation of the method of criminalization, the process of discovery and prosecution and the shortcomings in the legislative, judicial and executive fields related to the criminal phenomenon is one of the most important missions of legal criminology, so in this research The descriptive-analytical method has been used to analyze of public choice theory, the weakness of the criminal justice system in order to adopt a differential reactive approach, as well as the challenge existing in the field of regulatory mechanisms. The result is that the use of electronic monitoring system, damage-oriented reactive measures against crimes, elimination of the psychological element and absolute assumption of the committed crime, criminalization of omissions in the approved legal texts and the use of mechanisms based on animal welfare And continuous monitoring can be considered as one of the most important strategies to deal with and reduce the criminal acts of government officials.
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Volume 5, Issue 1
Winter 2025
Pages 143-154

  • Receive Date 27 September 2024
  • Revise Date 11 December 2024
  • Accept Date 23 January 2025
  • Publish Date 21 March 2025