Crime and its prevention in the capital market; Strategies to increase investor confidence

Document Type : Quantitative Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Mahabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahabad, Iran

4 Assistant Professor of Accounting, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran.

10.34785/J018.2022.025

Abstract

Obviously, the values of the do's and don'ts of the economic system are seriously challenged by crimes against the capital market. By committing such behaviors, trust between capital market actors is seriously damaged. Therefore, in addition to criminalization and punishment, criminal policymakers have a glimpse of capital market crime prevention. The present study seeks to investigate crime and its prevention in the capital market; Strategies to increase investor confidence. This research is descriptive-survey and causal in terms of applied purpose and data collection method. The statistical population of the present study is special investors in the capital market who have been selected by purposive sampling method and 384 people. To collect information, a researcher-made questionnaire with direct questioning mechanism, closed questions and multiple choice spectral type with grading was used and descriptive statistics was used to describe the main variables and inferential statistics was used to analyze the findings. Is. The results of the present study showed that the adoption of important measures such as substantive prevention, individualistic prevention, situational prevention, professional ethics education, public education of citizens, development of relevant regulatory regulations, use of substantive institutions can be effective in crime prevention in the capital market.

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