Political Science and International Relations Department, Faculty of Law, Political Science and Management, SoranUniversity

Abstract

The research topic is based on the role of the job description in the current Iraqi Penal Code as an aggravating circumstance in the crime, and the legislator regulated it through the two cases:

The first case: The perpetrator is an employee or entrusted with a public service in some crimes such as moral crimes, theft ... etc.

 The Iraqi legislator has tightened the penalty for these crimes when they are committed by those with a functional capacity, on the condition that they use their functional powers to carry out the crime, or that they exploit their position and job confidence in committing the crime.

The second case: which is the fact that the victim is an employee or entrusted with a public service , such as crimes of assault, such as murder, abuse ... etc.