Crime Prevention Relating to Cheques 1397 Amendments on Cheque’s Issuance Regulation

A cheque or a chek is one of trading documents that for its specific position it has found a special position in the commerce of Iran. The special position establishes the best opportunity for becoming a victim or an offender and consequently it has resulted the increase in the rates of the offences related to cheques, therefore; the legislature has changed the legislative approaches to cheques for controlling the rate of offences many times. With the enactment of the amendments on the Cheque’s Issuance Law its last update entered in the business, executive and juridical field of Iran. In this note with the analysis of 1397 amendments on the Cheque’s Issuance Law the author have found that without establishing change in the criminal posteriori reactions or without considering the functional application of the social prevention approaches the legislature generally with the application of the criminological and victimology teachings with a preventive look based on the rational choice theories and daily activities to apply situational prevention techniques approaches has taken step to restrict the opportunities (occasions) of the commitment of a penalty for dishonored cheques and offenses related to cheques. Accordingly, the legislature approaches have been formed in two dimensions: the digital technological situational crime prevention and non-digital technological situational crime prevention. According to the announced figures in the website of The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in 1400 the preventive approach in the amendments has created positive effects on crime prevention of the dishonored cheque’s issuance.