Criminal Policy in the Law No. (8) of 2018 to Protect Teachers, Teachers, Supervisors and Educational Counselors

Abstract

The policy of Criminalization and punishment in the law of protecting teachers, supervisors, and counselors No8 for 2018 has a distinctive character. That because it aims at fighting offence, tribal accountability, and extort that an officer may face during accomplishing his official job. Such an issue has been an Iraqi phenomenon. So the Iraqi legislator has legislated a law to protect education staff. Such a procedure is peculiar to a specific crime and to protect a specific group of people considering criminalization as a legal and reality idea as to achieving the aim. This means that the legislator managed precautionary legislation as a policy of criminalization. The punishment policy combines justice and pragmatism which is imposed by the nature of criminalization. So the legislator has adopted balance between crime and punishment namely; the legislator managed a conciliatory method combining ultimate justice with pragmatism as a punishment policy.