Handling stolen goods in Iranian and English criminal law

Hoseini, Sayyed Mohammad; E’temadi, Amir

doi:10.22059/jcl.2014.51529

Handling stolen goods in Iranian and English criminal law

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Associate Professor, Criminal Law & Criminology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Ph.D. Candidate, Criminal Law and Criminology, Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services University, Iran

10.22059/jcl.2014.51529

Abstract

Handling stolen goods has been recognized as an independent offence in both Iranian and English law. Committing this offence, tacitly support those actions that are called theft. However, penal policy of Iran’s legislator does not provide effective fighting against the handlers of stolen goods. In others words, comparing the two Iranian and English legal system, make this issue clear that criminalization of stolen goods has some restrictions about physical element as well as the amount of relevant punishment that we can have more effective fighting against supporting factors of larceny with eliminating them and hereto, in the course of exercising appropriate reaction to the handlers, reducing the offence of theft. The article seeks to recommend some solutions for a better penal policy, such as increasing punishment of the offence and extending the scope of its physical behaviour, through comparative analysis of the offence of stolen goods; meanwhile different elements of the offence have been studied.

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