فصلنامه مطالعات بین المللی پلیس
پیاپی 1 (بهار 1389)

This article aims to provide a framework for investigating concept of organized crimes and their instances with examining the most important regional and international documents.Then bilateral agreements that Iranian government has sealed with other governmentson fight against organized crimes would be taken into account in respect of applicability and comprehensiveness. In the end instances of criminalization of organized crimes in penal codes of Iran would be considered to demonstrate legal and juridical gaps relating to this field.

In the past time the acts of piracy and slave trade as the first instances of internationalcrimes were prosecuted but new kinds of international marine crimeshave emerged recently and received world community attention.Among lots of kinds of these above-mentioned crimes one titled as ((IllegalActions Against Seafaring Security)) was chosen regarding its significance andalso due to the signing an international contract to fight against it.Development of treaties to fight against these crimes beyond the jurisdiction ofgovernments has been the focus of this research.Conventions of marine laws in Genev in 1958 and 1982 and Convention ofRoma in 1988 and the annexed Protocol relating to seafaring security with otherinternational and regional documents on fighting against international marinecrimes have been investigated in this research.

Organized crimes and their effects are considered as a serious threat to global security.But it is not surprising that internal efforts of countries to fight this globalthreat would not suffice, since these crimes are committed beyond borders andno country is immune from this danger and international cooperation is neededto remove this problem. In recent years criminal groups as making gradual prog175conflicts and abuse of children by paramilitary forces and an extensive range ofhygiene risks including cholera and malnutrition and malaria and yellow feverand deliberate amputation and sexual misuse and sexually transmitted diseaseshave not been focus of systematic research and size of this problem has not beenmeasured properly yet. Since there are lots of children who are in grave needof care services international organizations do not have adequate resources tofulfill these children’ basic needs. It is difficult to get them back to their normallife and success or failure of this task depends on several factors. Epidemiologyand health related factors of this issue are considered in this paper.

Although bioterrorist notions and acts existed from old time and were applied in individual, tribal, political and military animosities, now methods of their production, storage and setting free have changed by advancement of technology.Based on existing data many countries have produced and stored them and some countries like England, Japan and Germany used them as weapons of mass destruction in the Second World War. Regarding the Similarity between Islamic politics and Islamic religion and since Islam does not allow using such things as weapons of war and also ourSupreme Leader banned misuse of nuclear energy, using biological devices to intimidate and murder people is rejected according to our Islamic Republic