The Future of EU Substantive Criminal Law

AI & Criminal Law: Past, Present & Future

Next to the three parties of the criminal process traditionally considered, viz. the judge, the prosecutor and the suspect, there is fourth party: the victim. We describe a project we carried out for Dutch Victim Support Organization (DVSO). The project deals with the type of tool that should be developed to assist the volunteers of the DVSO to set the amount of damages to be asked from the sus...

Substantive criminal analysis of sexual abuse of children and adolescents

The Child and Adolescent Protection Act approved in 1399 have criminalized many sexually abusive acts against children and adolescents by using the term “sexual abuse” for the first time. Sexual abuse can be divided into two general categories: first, abuses in which the child or adolescent is the main target of perpetrator to satisfy his sexual needs, second, using child or adolescent as a mea...

Codification of the Criminal Law

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...

Mentality and the Criminal Law

This book aims at presenting in a concise manner the salient points connected with the law in this country regarding the commission of crimes by mentally disordered persons, so that students and practitioners of law may obtain useful information thereon with an economy of time. A preliminary chapter discusses briefly the meaning of the words " disease " and " mind.' There follow short chapters ...