A Criminological Study of the Law on Reducing the Punishment of Penal Servitude Approved in 2019
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Abstract
In most of the countries of the world, violation of laws and regulations is considered as an abnormality and causes social blame followed by punishment. Many people of the world consider imprisonment of the perpetrators of serious crimes to be the most appropriate punishment. For example, in 1966, a survey was conducted in England. What do you think is the most common and desirable punishment? 67% have identified prison as the most desirable punishment.Also, in the idea of criminal justice and individualization of punishments, prison sentences also pursue other goals, such as punishing and reforming criminals, in addition to intimidation. However, although these punishments have met the goals of the theory of correction and rehabilitation of criminals in some cases, they have not been successful in most cases.
Although the views of criminologists are often not in agreement with the application of prison sentences and strongly consider the negative aspects of the punishment of deprivation of liberty to be ineffective or, in the most optimistic case, less effective in curbing the crime rate, but the serious criticism made by criminologists towards the Law of Reduction The proposed punishment of custodial imprisonment is why this project has focused its goal and mission solely on reducing the population of prisons in any way possible, and because in order to achieve the goal, which is a logical and reasonable thing in its place, A method used that creates an extreme approach and pushes the rules towards impropriety is flawed. And this itself leads to the fact that society is not seriously supported in the face of delinquency.
In this research, we believe that the developments that followed the approval of the Law on Reducing Imprisonment 2019 as a new institution in the criminal laws of Iran; Let's examine and study from a criminological point of view that it has caused the reduction, conversion or cancellation of the punishment of imprisonment.