Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Ismail Qamari ¹
• Hoda Ghamari ²

¹ Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Criminology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Research Sciences Branch, Kermanshah Branch, Kermanshah, Iran

² Master of Laws, Criminal Law and Criminology, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

The principle of universal jurisdiction of criminal laws is one of the most important principles in determining the jurisdiction of countries and criminal laws. According to this principle, any country can, without any traditional relationship with the crime of preventing the citizenship of the criminal or the defendant against the place of the crime or the interests of the country, be harmed, in order to keep the criminal unpunished, pursue and punish him. Although most countries in the world today have not recognized this principle, but very few of them have actually taken action to implement it, and this is important due to international conventions and treaties that in the event of a crime, despite the fact that the perpetrator is not a citizen of that country's "territorial jurisdiction" or "personal jurisdiction" or that the crimes are not represented by the criminal laws of the country of detention

Keywords

• Global jurisdiction
• The International Criminal Court
• International crime
• The systems of criminal law

Main Subjects

• Criminal Law and Criminology

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