Necessity of Special Police for Children and Adolescents in Iranian Judicial System
Subject Areas : child rightsAskar Jalalian 1 , Mostafa zarei 2 , Abbas Barzegarzadeh 3
1 - Associate Professor of Public International Law, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Ph.D. student of International Law, Lecturer of Islamic Azad University, Khormoj Branch, Bushehr, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
Keywords: Children and Adolescents, Police, Iranian Judicial System, Crime Prevention,
Abstract :
The Special police for children and adolescents, as one of the special institutions of the juvenile justice system, was first considered in the Juvenile Delinquency Bill (1383) and then the legislator paid attention to it in the Criminal Procedure Code of 1392 in Article 31. According to this article, the police organization was ordered to form a police section for children and adolescents. In this study, in order to achieve the hidden angles of the role of the police in juvenile justice, an attempt has been made to explain the preventive position of the juvenile police in order to answer the question: what is the role of the juvenile police in the Iranian judiciary in crime prevention? The results of this study indicate that the behavior and approach of the Iranian police towards children and adolescents does not have a differential criminal policy and in dealing with children and adolescents, adult criminal policy is used. Therefore, it is necessary for the police to try to improve the process of intervening in the proceedings of children and adolescents by formulating a differential criminal policy based on protective and not criminal intervention in compliance with national and international principles and standards.
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