Critiques on the concept of economic crimes in the Islamic penal code of Iran (1392)

Economic crimes challenge, not only economic system, but all parts of social system so it must be controlled by a comprehensive criminal policy. In other hand, Iranian economic enviroment has several deficiencies that make suitable context to economic crime while Iranian criminal law, hasn’t any special contrivance against it. For first time in Iranian legal system, new Islamic criminal code of Iran, presented a concept from “economic crimes” by specification of its limitative examples. But because of ambiguity and incompetence in this examples and lack of any criterion for distinction of economic crimes from other types of crimes, this concept was critically. This article offers a new structural difinition for “economic crime” then by using it, analyse and criticize the concept of “economic crime” in new Islamic criminal code of Iran.