Comparative Study of Strategies to Protect Victims of Computer Crimes in the Criminal Law of Iran and International Documents with Emphasis on the Budapest Convention

The necessity of protecting victims, especially in cyber crimes, and its role in realizing social justice is known to everyone. The strategies to protect victims of cyber crimes in the criminal policy of Iran and international documents is one of the new emerging issues in the criminal sciences expressing approaches to protect victims of cyber crimes. This paper that has been written with an analytical-descriptive approach and with the aim of investigating strategies to protect victims of cyber crimes in the criminal law of Iran and international documents, especially the Budapest convention, is aimed to answer these main questions that whether the special protections have been taken place from victims of cyber crimes? What is the position of international documents, especially the convention on the cyber crimes in this area? What are the criminal policies of Iran against cyber crimes? With the study of Iran’s penal code and international documents, especially the Budapest convention, and in terms of typology of protections it can be clear that the criminal policy of Iran towards the protection from victims of cyber crimes is not differential and non-supportive and non-exclusive amenability policies have been applied