Judgment

Judgment

Study The crime of bribery in pre-Islamic Iran

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Ph.D student of criminal law and criminology
Abstract
From the perspective of criminal law history in Iran, whether before Islam that people resided in the vast and glorious land of Persian Empire were Unitarian, unlike some of that era’s civilizations, or after the Islam that people of this sacred land accepted Islam, the greatest divine religion, bribing and taking bribe always was considered as a viciously, evil and crime, and the violators had been faced with the most serious criminal reaction, so that, in addition to imprisonment and confiscation of property, in some cases, by the execution of venal person, the society has been cleared of his foul existence. In the ancient Iran, in many cases, the king has trailed the venal person out in public and issued the execution command, that this shows the sensitivity of kings of that era in deal with the criminal bribe phenomenon. 
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Volume 15, Issue 81
Winter 2015
Pages 73-91

  • Receive Date 17 February 2015
  • Revise Date 18 February 2015
  • Accept Date 07 March 2015