Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Associte Professor of Law. Shahid Behshti University
2 Ph.D. Graduate of Criminal law and Criminology,Islamic Azad University of Gorgan ,Iran
Abstract
Oligarchy or the rule of a small group with economic-political power or the power to influence the government has a long history in the fields of economics, law and political science. With their actions, this destructive group imposes widespread corruption on the society by extracting public resources for their own benefit. Researches and statistics of reliable international authorities show that the activities of oligarchs are expanding not only in developing societies but also in advanced societies. Daily news about the embezzlement and arrest of senior provincial and national agents in the country also points out the need to achieve a proportionate criminal policy in the face of this destructive phenomenon. Despite the valuable researches that have been conducted in this field, specific addressing to the issue of oligarchs in democratic structures and appropriate criminal policy has not been given special attention. Therefore, the upcoming research with "descriptive-analytical" method by explaining what, why and how to form the most important patterns of oligarchic system and its relationship with political-economic corruption in democratic structures seeks to provide appropriate criminal policy in facing this phenomenon. The findings indicate that the oligarchic system, due to its complexity and often organized, requires a review of the legislative criminal policy and the adoption of a differential criminal policy at all levels of investigation, prosecution and judicial proceedings, along with the employment of specialized officers and the use of active community criminal policy and Non-Governmental Organization
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