Criminal policy-making against the criminal activity of information technology commercial platforms: Necessities and Obligations

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1 PhD student, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Professor, Department of Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The role of IT commercial platforms in changing lifestyles is undeniable. Considering the crimes committed space of these platforms, their influence on Iran's criminal policy is undeniable. However, it seems that the current criminal policy of Iran is not efficient in dealing with the crimes committed by them. This article deals with the descriptive-analytical method to answer these questions, what are the necessities and requirements of criminal policy-making regarding the criminal activities of IT commercial platforms? The increasing power, speed of growth and speculation of platforms, threats to the power and ideology of governments by them, and the emergence of new crimes in platforms are among the reasons for the necessity; and predicting the policy-making legal entity, redefining some concepts of traditional criminal law, setting up crime prevention mechanisms and responding to it in platforms are considered to be the requirements of efficient criminal policy in this regard.

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Criminal Law Research

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Available Online from 08 September 2025

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