Changes in punishment in Iran's criminal code

Critical topics are a criminal offense with child offenders. Due to the importance of the age of childhood and adolescence and the impact that this period has on the child's future character, and also on the fact that the child and adolescent with adults are physically and There are differences in mental health, the criminal system's response to the peril of this stratum is very important. Determining the age of his childhood, his punishment and criminal responsibility in the community, as in other laws of the country, is extracted from the sacred religion. But due to the requirements of the time and of course the fatwas of the jurists, there has been a change in the regulations reflected in the new provisions of the Islamic Penal Code. With these changes, in addition to the principle of the four constitutional principles that "all civil laws, civil, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, etc. should be based on Islamic principles", the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child The child, which is approved by the parliament in accordance with domestic law, and the requirements and necessities of time are also considered.