Circular-based Criminal Policies Within the Criminal Process

As one of the main branches of criminal policy, judicial criminal policy plays an effective role in crime control. This role is played via the responses various institutions of the Criminal Justice System give to crime, the issuance of verdicts, writs, judicial procedures, preventive measures and the application of macro and strategic decisions. Since the second half of the 00s, the Iranian judiciary has been issuing various circulars and directives, some of which are also authorization seeking, and in doing so it has distanced itself from legislative criminal policy and pursued other goals. The stagnation of the criminal process, the encountering of masses of files and cases, and the ineffectiveness of settling claims within a reasonable time, is the main reason behind the tendency towards circular policy, which seeks deviation from the law, diversion, mediation, conciseness, and other alternative remedies.In contrast, using directives such as Article 477 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, judicial-criminal policy has given all persons the right to object to definitive votes. This has created a crisis by helping to open closed lawsuits under the pretext of "clarifying sharia" and increasing the burden on the Criminal Justice System, and thus prescribing a dual approach to overcoming challenges. Without a doubt, policy which allows you to pass from law to directive, restricts the rights of individuals, and not only fails to help solve problems but also exposes the crisis within the criminal policy process.