Ethical Foundations of Iran-UK Criminal Policy in Determining Crimes with Absolute Responsibility

Ethics plays an important role in the field of criminal law, including the principles of criminal responsibility. One of the most important types of crimes is crimes with absolute responsibility, which are also accepted in the criminal policy systems of Iran and the United Kingdom. The dimensions and scope of these crimes in these two penal systems are different from each other, so that in the Iranian penal system is accepted only for some economic crimes and corruption, while in the British penal system the scope of crimes with absolute responsibility to crimes is accepted. Contrary to chastity, it has expanded. The main question in this article is done by descriptive-analytical method, is what are the ethical foundations of the criminal policy of Iran and the United Kingdom in determining crimes with absolute responsibility?

The result of the present study is that the ethical principles in Iranian criminal policy based on general jurisprudential rules are harmless, practical rule, the rule of property is void, etc., while in British criminal policy based on principles such as the principle of expediency, it can be evaluated.