نشریه پژوهش های حقوق جزا و جرم شناسی
پیاپی 15 (بهار و تابستان 1399)

The concept of Superior Responsibility is well rooted in the history of clashes and confrontations of states, nations and civilizations. Historically the norm of “might is right” had justified the acts of the superior state regardless of the probable criminal nature of the deeds. This could be well applied to the colonial history of the west since 17th century. The mere superiority in power, precisely the military capabilities, sufficed to provide carte blanche for intrusion without accountability. There have been regional and international efforts to improve the drastic lack of responsibility by powerful states; the principle of Westphalia Sovereignty was the first European attempt to improve the matter. Nonetheless outside Europe, the irresponsible modus operandi remained a reality for the colonized states. Furthermore, in 1800s the Act of State doctrine in the US came into existence. The two doctrines remain the sole sources of the discourse until the First World War it was between the two world wars that the challenges of the discourse of responsibility versus irresponsibility was once again brought into the attention. The Nuremberg Charter, for the first time, put an end to the rhetoric in favor of the irresponsibility theory by acknowledging that: “the official position of defendants, shall be considered as freeing them from responsibility.” The aforesaid phrase became the cornerstone of the Attributing Responsibility. Also, inferiors and soldiers deemed as responsible due to the fact that, they were human before being soldiers. Under the Charter, the superiors were also taken responsible not only for their own direct orders and acts, but also vicariously liable for the acts of their inferiors. The superior has been defined as army commander or civil superior. Hence such responsibility should not be limited only to military personnel, as it should also be held applicable to the politicians.

Corporate social responsibility (banks) is one of the important banking system issues which one of its effects is preventing banking crimes. Implementation of social responsibility principles and disciplines is of high importance in banks. Actually, “social responsibility’ pattern is a managerial expression, when exercising, crimes and banking crimes reduction is one of its functions. Actually CSR or corporate social responsibility is commitment of business sector for cooperating in sustainable economic development through working with staff, family and society for improving the quality and in this regard ISO 26000 and equator principle in 10 articles following social standardization of banks which today are accepted by 68 international banks, could be referred to. Therefore, in fact corporate social responsibility or CSR is a managerial discussion which entered into law, as well. Since it is a prevention mechanism and could be used in banking laws, as well. Prevention system caused by corporate social responsibility also is a self-regulation mechanism which is considered as one of the most important noncriminal techniques. In this paper, there is an attempt to study its role in preventing banking crimes through descriptive-analytical method aiming to express social responsibility.

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.