Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Atiyeh Vejdani Fakhr ¹
• Talia Vodjani Fakhr ²
• Mohammad Reza Elahi Manesh ³

¹ PhD student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Iran

² Master of Laws, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Law Department, University of Tehran-North, PhD in Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty Member, Tehran-North Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In some cases, the innate nature of criminal act is punishable regardless of realization or non-realization of any result, and in this sense, to realize the criminal responsibility, there needs causality relationship, since the relationship always requires two parties (i.e. behavior and result) and when result is not essential, the existence of a causal relationship will not be necessary. In some crimes where obtaining a criminal result is essential for its realization, three conditions are required for the realization of criminal responsibility: (i) the presence of criminal behavior, (ii) occurrence of a harmful incident, and (iii) existence of causal relationship between criminal behavior and harmful event. It is feasible to explore and prove causal relationship in some cases, especially when an agent was involved in the result realization, as someone killing somebody by a gun. Instead of providing a vivid and decisive rule, the 2012 Islamic Penal Code attempted to provide some solutions by taking certain situations and conditions into account. Given that, in transverse case of stewardess multiplicity, the result is taken into account of all parameters, and in the longitudinal case, the last stewardess may be the guarantor, the first stewardess, or even both. Besides, in the multiplicity assumption of causes transversely, equal responsibility has been ordered, and in case of longitudinal involvement, provided the unintentional crime, the primary stewardess has been mainly affected

Keywords

• Stewardship
• Causation
• Association of Cause and Stewardship
• Committing Crime
• Islamic Penal Code

Main Subjects

• Criminal Law and Criminology

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