Developments in criminology of the rules of multiplicity and repetition of crimes in the law on reducing the punishment of taziri imprisonment approved in 2019

due to the ineffectiveness of prison punishment in reforming and rehabilitating prisoners, as well as due to the damage caused by it, which has caused an increase in the criminal population of prisons, the officials of the criminal justice system have encouraged the use of punishment to to limit as much as possible, based on this, the law on reducing the punishment of penal servitude was approved in 2019 with the aim of decriminalization. This law, while reducing the punishment (not only prison) of some penal crimes, changed many concepts and institutions of criminal law or their territory such as multiplicity and repetition of crime.

The present research was carried out with a descriptive and analytical method.

The policy of the reform law, with regard to the way of punishment for multiple and repeated crimes, is in a way in favor of the accused and in line with the general policies of the system, based on de-incarceration, reducing the criminal prison population and reducing the financial burden of keeping prisoners. and it is somehow close to the findings of criminology and criminology and the goals of applying punishments, especially reforming and rehabilitating criminals, and punishment in this field is also consistent with the goals of the legislator from the enactment and approval of the law on reducing prison sentences.