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PhD student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University
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"Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran"
10.30465/scs.2025.50789.2956
Abstract
In legal sociology, one of the complex issues is the matter of "economic crimes." The question arises as to how economic crimes can be delineated from the perspective of legal sociology. Economic crimes, defined as unlawful acts in financial and commercial domains, include behaviors such as embezzlement, fraud, and money laundering. Distinguished by characteristics such as complexity, specialization, and indirect and long-term consequences, economic crimes differ from traditional crimes. They undermine economic infrastructure, reduce public trust, and create social instability, making them a fundamental challenge in modern societies. This study, adopting a descriptive-analytical approach, seeks to address how a criminal justice model for responding to economic crimes should be designed from the perspective of legal sociology. Findings indicate that such a model must account for legal challenges like the lack of comprehensive laws, practical challenges such as technological inefficiency and weak oversight, political challenges including systemic corruption and influence, and social challenges such as public unawareness and normalization of corruption. The study concludes that a combination of traditional, restorative, preventive, and punitive-restorative justice models, along with legal reforms, institutional oversight enhancement, and public awareness campaigns, can provide a comprehensive response to counter these crimes and restore public trust.
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