A Study of Comparative of the Age of Child Criminal Responsibility in Iranian Laws and Islamic Penal Code 2013

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Payam Noor university

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In today's ,Criminal responsibility complex society’s Criminal responsibility in simple societies of the past cannot be completely equated; modern societies usually have a detailed set of criminal rules. It is not possible for a girl to be held responsible for a certain age at a particular age, especially at the age of nine for all criminal law; if we are to hold a nine-year-old girl accountable for all black crimes, we must inevitably have lower offenses and penalties. The child at such an age is still unable to conceive many of the concepts of the material and spiritual element of crime. According to the rule of law and the rules of law, subject matter and the legislator's compliance with the prominent legal opinions of Iran, the age of puberty is the basis for determining the age of criminal responsibility for children. In post-revolutionary law, it is nine years for girls and fifteen years for boys. As a result of reaching adulthood, it is not a matter of achieving criminal growth and must set a certain age for criminal development so that children who are legally adolescent but do not have criminal development are not prosecuted unjustly.

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Political Sociology of Iran
Volume 5, Issue 7
September 2022
Pages 1344-1360

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