Analyzing the Basis of Criminalizing Incitement to Suicide in Children and Adolescents in the Context of Cyberspace

Omrani Far, Adnan; Sheybani, Mostafa

doi:10.22034/judg.2025.2055475.1394

Analyzing the Basis of Criminalizing Incitement to Suicide in Children and Adolescents in the Context of Cyberspace

Document Type : Scientific

Authors

adnan omrani far ¹

mostafa sheybani ²

¹ Graduated with a specialized doctorate in criminal law and criminology from Tehran University. Tehran,Iran.(Corresponding Author). javan-j@um.ac.ir

² Judge Court, PhD student in Criminal Justice and Criminology at Meybod University. Meybod, Iran. msheibani89@gmail.com

10.22034/judg.2025.2055475.1394

Abstract

The expansion of cyberspace and the removal of geographical restrictions have made it possible to establish communication in the shortest possible time and have attracted a wide range of users. Despite these advantages, challenges have also emerged in this area that have led governments to increase surveillance, criminalize, and restrict behaviors that threaten public interests. One of the serious challenges of cyberspace is the incitement of vulnerable individuals, especially children and adolescents, to commit suicide; a phenomenon that, in addition to endangering the individual's life, causes irreparable mental and physical harm to those around them and deprives society of future human capital. Success in confronting this phenomenon through criminalization requires choosing the principles that are most consistent with the views of the government and social norms. In this regard, the present study examines the principles of criminology in three social, political, and legal dimensions using a descriptive-analytical method. These principles include the principle of harm, social acceptability, and public resentment in the social dimension, the principles of legal patriarchy and expediency in the political dimension, and the protection of legal morality, privacy, the minimal nature of criminal titles, and the coordination of cyberspace laws with international approaches in the legal dimension.

Keywords

Criminal law principles

Criminology

Cyberspace

Protection of privacy

Sovereign surveillance

Subjects

Criminal law

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