Aggravated Qualities of Crime in Iranian Criminal Law

Knowing the aggravating qualities of the crime has important effects in determining the criteria for the diagnosis of serious crimes. The types of aggravating factors include the general factors of aggravation, which in Iran's criminal law are exemplified only in the two factors of multiplicity and repetition of the crime, and specific factors, which are divided into objective factors and personal factors. The existence of crime is always dangerous for the people of the society, but in some cases committing a crime in the form of its frequency and repetition is considered a special threat. In this situation, in order to prevent such crimes from being committed, the legislator has to enact special provisions in the form of increasing the punishment in order to establish justice in the society. Multiplicity and repetition is one of the general causes of punishment escalation because it is not specific to specific crimes and if it is found in any crime, it causes the punishment to be intensified. This article, by using the analytical descriptive method, while comparing the ways of intensifying the punishment, tries to find out the nature of the qualities. To identify the aggravated crime in the laws of Iran and England.