A Criminological Study of the Effective Internal Factors on Committing Crimes against Humanity

The crimes committed against humanity are amongst the clear violations of criminal international law and extra ordinary forms of collective violence which were not in the focus of criminologists for a long time, since the prosecution, trail and punishment of those committing these crimes did not prevented them from perpetrating crimes, studying the criminological nature of these crimes to knowing reasons and factors of committing these crimes could be a good help for international criminal justice to fight against them knowingly and to achieve an effective international criminal policy to prevent them. The present article tries to study the internal factors leading to these crimes, among which the role of the government, cultural structure, life difficult conditions, the role of national media resulting in these crimes can be mentioned.