Investigating the effect of the personality of white-collar criminals in predicting the differential trial of economic crimes (analyzing the attitude of society's elites)

Regarding the handling of economic crimes, special courts to deal with the crimes of those who disrupt the country's economic system were established in a number of provinces in 2017. The rules of proceedings foreseen for these courts are in many cases contrary to the principles and bases of the usual proceedings in the handling of other crimes. It seems that one of the justifications for forming such courts is the character of economic criminals, which challenges the handling of macro-economic cases in normal courts. In this article, the authors examined the attitude of three groups of society's elite regarding the influence of the personality of white-collar criminals in predicting differential proceedings in these courts. 158 law professors, 312 lawyers and 421 judges were selected as a statistical sample using a judgmental method. The questionnaire of this research was designed as a researcher with closed-ended questions inspired by the 5-point Likert scale, and the data was analyzed and tested using SPSS version 22 software (Kruskal-Wallis). The result of the research showed that among the statistical groups, judges were more than other elite groups, they believed in the influence of the personality of economic criminals in predicting the differential trial of economic crimes.