Criminal policy to combat rumors

Abstract

God Almighty has commanded us in His Holy Book to verify news before spreading it, and that rumors are a social phenomenon like all phenomena that may appear in a society, and they have been present in all ages, and they grow and flourish with the needs of man in life. The rumor appears simple at the beginning, but it quickly spreads very quickly, causing fear and terror among members of society. Given the situation in Iraq, it was necessary to research the subject of rumors and their impact from various aspects, including the legal aspect, specifically the legal aspect, and we find that the Iraqi legislator has organized this crime under the title of crimes harmful to the public interest. We wanted to know whether the criminal legal texts covered the subject or not and whether the texts were sufficient in terms of preventive or punitive measures and the extent of proportionality and whether they contributed to combating this crime and raising awareness, prevention and treatment, especially after the tremendous and frightening scientific and technological progress and that rumor crimes are intentional formal crimes, as well as crimes of danger in which it is sufficient for the behavior to result in a danger to the right or interest subject to criminal protection, without requiring actual damages, because the danger in itself is a criminal result in the legislative model in state security crimes, whether from the inside or outside.