The Typology and Penalization of the Plurality of Crimes in Iranian and Jordanian Law

This paper firstly aims to study the developments of the plurality of crimes in the statute of the Taziri Imprisonment Reduction adopted in 2020, then to deal with the question that which of the following countries' legal systems, i.e. Iran and Jordan, has followed a more reasonable policy regarding the issue. The findings reveal that in spite of the existence of common strategies including the explicit admission of material and spiritual plurality, the single and cumulative penalization and the most sever punishment for the spiritual plurality, the two legal systems have also adopted different strategies. For example, in Jordanian law enjoys the following merits: the existence of the explicit stipulation of the withdrawal of spiritual plurality from the single conduct having multiple criminal descriptions and the admission of the principle of material pluralization of crimes. On the contrary, the followings are known as the merits of the Iranian law: the separation of various crimes in penalization, the application of various severe punishments based on the number of crimes, the declaration of the most severe punishment for multiple results, the necessity of imposing of consequential or supplementary punishments similar to the complimentary punishments, the possibility of the mitigation of punishments, the determining of the lenient measure effects of criminal policy.