Efficiency and non-Efficiency of Imprisonment in International Criminal Law

Imprisonment fundamentally borninthe sphere of National criminal law. In other word, for many years imprisonment has been viewed and dictated on the base of crime doings inside the borders of the Nation- States. Imprisonment has been an excommunicating punishment that its efficiency harshly criticized in many criminal law systems as a “school of repeating the crime”. But today malfunctions ofthis punishment has been reduced in many ways in the developed countries by performing reformations in management of prisons, but acceptance of the efficiency of such punishment regarding the International crimes has been doubtful. Such a phenomenon can be analyzed both with the punitive approach andutilitarian approach in penology. But first of all, the main thing about efficacy of such punishment in the sphere of International crimes is suggesting and adopting a suitable degree of the punishment regarding the character of International criminals. However, the success of such an important task depends on organization and establishment of an independent institution for administrating the affairs of an International prison. An independent institution with special task of International kind of punishment must be created and its strong structure must perform intimidating,corrective andtreatmentativetasks appropriately. Only in this way we can hope the great International criminals receive anappropriate punishment and also potential criminals and guilty be prevented from doing crime.