Corruption: A Legal Measurement, a Legislative Requirement

Corruption is dishonest or illegal behavior, especially of people in authority that it leads to loss and gain directly or indirectly. Really,corruption implies a group of crimes that their main characteristic is abuse of power. Iranian criminal laws discusses only types of crimes, but it talks nothing about a group of crimes that they have common features such as economic crimes, terrorist crimes, corruption, and organizational crimes. Vice versa criminal policy of international documents or laws prepares a way to recognize a group of crimes according to their types that corruption is known as one of them. Although some types of corruption havent been predicted by Iranian criminal laws, there are two steps to combat corruption: the first step is joining the United Nations convention against corruption- that Iran joined it at Nov. 2008- to combat corruption. The second step is predicting criminal, bureaucratic, and civil sanctions for the implementation of the UN convention against corruption as well as removing defects of existing laws. Then the paper outlines the term and types of corruption to define it as used in international criminal laws and to define its legislativerequirement as well.