Iran's criminal policy with the approach of de-imprisonment in the light of the law on reducing imprisonment

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Background and purpose: Considering the effects of imprisonment for the offender, it is noted that the legislator, along with the policies of decriminalization and decriminalization today, each of them causes punishment in some way, imprisonment as one of the main punishments. It has been introduced to reduce the number of activists in the criminal system, to pay attention to the policy of de-incarceration in Iran's criminal policy. For this reason, Iran's criminal policy has paid special attention to this issue by approving the law on reducing penal servitude in 2019.
Method: Due to its nature, the present research is applied and descriptive-analytical, using library resources and documentary studies and referring to jurisprudential and legal sources, trying to explain the approach of de-imprisonment in Iran's criminal policy, in the light of the law on reducing penal incarceration.
Findings and results: The results of the research have shown that Iran's criminal policy, based on various bases including legal, criminological, and human rights, has started de-incarceration as a result of the passing of the law on reducing penal incarceration. He considered the result of the ineffectiveness of imprisonment in Iran's criminal system.

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Political Sociology of Iran
Volume 4, Issue 4 - Serial Number 16
February 2022
Pages 1093-118

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