Jens Rydström en Kati Mustola (eds.), Criminally Queer. Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999

Weak-Minded Responsibility in Iranian Criminal Law and Egyptian Law

In Iran's criminal law, humans are not only divided into wise or insane they are also persons who, on the one hand, do not fall under Article 149 of the Islamic Penal Code in the definition of insane persons and on the other hand, they are not wise, the rational age of these people is lower than their child's physical age that Affected by mental disorder and mental retardation. Article 91 of th...

Legal and Ethical Principles of Criminalization in Iran’s Criminal Law

Background: The criminal code is the rules that restrict the rights and freedoms of a person to ensure peaceful coexistence. What behavior should be prohibited and which one can be removed from the circle of legal acts. How can the word ethics in the world of law refer to ethical and literary means from the past, and is called the tradition of morality, in the sense of moral standards? On the b...

Teaching "street law" to the criminally insane.

A course in "Street Law" was taught to forensic patients by law students, following a format used by Georgetown University Law Center. Although the course has been taught to high school students and inmates of correctional facilities, this was the first time it has been extended to mental patients found not guilty of crimes by reason of insanity. An outstanding feature of the course was marked ...

Properties Attachment in Iranian Criminal Law

One of judicial decision is properties attachment that it is enacted in article 215 code of criminal law about property that is means for committing offence or is obtained due to it or is used during committing offence or is denoted for applying offence. Attachment makes out above properties from ownership and possession of owner and possessor. Nature of attachment is a Taziry punishment which ...

Determinism and Criminal Law