The Mental Attitude Requirement in Criminal Law: And Some Exceptions

Mental Disorder and Criminal Law

from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others . . . . Their deficiencies do not warrant an exemption from criminal sanctions, but they do diminish their personal culpability . . . . With respect to retribution—the interest in seeing that the offender gets his “just deserts”—the severity of the appropriate ...

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...

Chinese and American Criminal Law: Some Comparisons

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...

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 ...