Restorative Justice Measures of Irans’ Legal System to Support Victims under 18 Years Old in Sexual Crimes with Adaptive Study of Needs-Rights Model

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. Candidate in Criminal Law and Criminology, Islamic Azad University, Science and ResearchDepartment

2 Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch

3 Associate Professor, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran

4 Assistant Professor of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit

10.22034/law.2023.57151.3282

Abstract

Despite the growth of sexual crimes against children and teenagers, it has resulted in the least amount of disclosure and judicial prosecution. In this regard, restorative justice can provide accountability and compensation without weakening the impact of punishment as an alternative to dealing with sexual crimes; Enables victims to communicate with offenders (usually with judicial supervision). Despite the effectiveness of restorative justice programs in reducing sexual crimes, which aims to rehabilitate juvenile offenders or criminals who have committed crimes for the first time, children and adolescents who have been sexually abused are outside the scope of this system, as a result of the non-fulfillment of the promise of restorative justice to support victims and implement justice. . With regard to the issue of restorative justice in Iran's legal and judicial system, this research, which is qualitative in terms of descriptive-analytical method, deals with two main issues: first, identifying and stating standards of restorative justice in order to provide maximum help and support to sexually abused children and adolescents with a view on The experience of implementing restorative justice programs in other countries and the model presented by Gal, and secondly, the challenges facing Iran's legal system in order to make restorative justice operational. In the current conditions of Iran's legal system, the result of the research shows that "the use of trained restorative justice activists and benefiting from the capabilities of non-governmental organizations" provides the recovery and treatment of sexual victims under the age of 18.

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