The Rights of Delinquent Children and Adolescents in Iran: An Analysis of Four Determining Areas
Subject Areas : child rightsMaryam Sha’ban 1 , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini 2
1 - PhD of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Master of Criminal Law & Criminology, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Keywords: Child delinquency, Children and Adolescents' Rights, Iranian society, Islamic world, world community ,
Abstract :
This study seeks to investigate how four main areas of reference in Iran and the world are exposed to child delinquent. Therefore, four main areas of reference were identified that include Iranian legal regulations, Islamic religion, the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Islam and the Convention on the Rights of the Child; Then they were analyzed with a qualitative approach and documentary analysis method. The results show that exposure to delinquent children is approximately the same in all four domains. Although the three areas related to Iran and the Islamic world have been centered on Law of Religion, especially Shi'ism, their roots lie in Islamic religion, and against them the Convention on the Rights of the Child as an international matter has been drafted based on the Declaration of Human Rights and the belief in Humanism, but they work very closely on how to deal with child guilty and there are no significant differences between their procedures. Therefore, all four domains regard the child as having no precise decision-making power and consider his/her delinquency a common "mistake" in his/her development. The child should be forgiven as much as possible and his/her error should be ignored; this should also have a corrective and re-interactional aspect to be done within the child's family by the child's parents or legal guardians. Unless child guilty is limited, such as harm to others, which has resulted in violations of the rights of others, all three areas emphasize efforts to minimize penalties and impose penalties for reform and resocialization. the only point of difference is in the definition of the child and the age range that makes the subject different in applying the rules related to child delinquency.
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