Developments related to the criminal responsibility of children and adolescents in AH

Document Type : Original Article

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PhD in Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Law, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran

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Given that in Iranian criminal law, children and adolescents do not have the power of reason, so they have no criminal responsibility and the legislature has provided special measures to protect them. In the Iranian legal system, there are differences of opinion regarding the definition of children and adolescents and the exact age of criminal responsibility, and the new Islamic Penal Code provides for special solutions to solve this problem. It has somewhat reduced the problems. Of course, there are differences between physical maturity and mental development, and criminal responsibility is realized when he is criminally mature. In the new Islamic Penal Code, children up to the age of 18 are divided into different categories in order to solve the legal problems of juveniles. The present article is a library that aims to study the developments of punishment in relation to criminal liability of children and adolescents. It turns out that there are important changes in the Penal Code of 1992 compared to the previous law in the field of limits and punishments, and as a result, in this law, the objections of the former law have been removed, but in the crimes of hadd and qisas, the former is the criterion of religious maturity.

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Political Sociology of Iran
Volume 5, Issue 8
October 2022
Pages 2085-2101

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