Judicial Law Views Quarterly (Law Views)

The topic of multiplicity of results is the following discussion of multiplicity of offenses. Legislator paid attention to the issue of Plurality of results in ta'zir crimes explaining its rule in note 1 of article 134 for the first time in Islamic penal code of 2013. for example, the unit behavior of throwing poisonous materials into rivers (article 688) which lead to waste another animals (Article 679) on One hand, and waste other products (article 685) on the other hand. It is clear that, in this example, there has not committed more than a unit act, but it has leaded to multiple results. In fact, the legislator paid attention to multiple results of the unit act, rather than focusing only on multiplicity of acts. In this regard, some questions arise such as: whether this kind of multiplicity is applicable for the multiple victims or unit victim, the same or different crimes, intentional or unintentional crimes, absolute or conditional crimes, and similar issues.

The method of research is descriptive analysis using library resources. The results indicate that it is an accurate attempt legislating this kind of multiplicity and use it under the substantive multiplicity discussion, and despite the similarity in this legal concept with similar titles, it is different institutions since there is a unit act that leads to multiple substantive results.