Criminal Responsibility of Individuals in Cyberspace Law of Iran

Abstract

Cyber space or virtual environment is one of the concepts that have been recently considered by criminologists and lawyers. At the same time with the creation of this environment, there are some crimes taking place in it and using it and therefore, the legal fight against these crimes requires taking some significant steps. The first crime was criminal behavior. However, the criminalization without creation and proof of criminal liability is deemed to be almost pointless. Perhaps it was on this basis that the legislator of the law in Iran has emphasized on the criminal liability of legal entities regarding the cybercrimes and explicitly targeted the criminal liability of legal persons for the first time Iran. However, the issue of criminal responsibility and explaining the scope of computer crime law has been of great importance. Many questions may be raised about the extent of the responsibility of individuals in a virtual environment. Legislator of Iran has allocated the sixth season of the computer crimes law to the subject of criminal liability and the most important changes that have been made in the above-mentioned law is to identify and establish criminal liability for legal persons in the virtual environment.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s2p198