Functions and territory of the people's participation and Non governmental organizations in the criminal prosecution process based on Imamiyah jurisprudence

The participation of people and social institutions in the criminal trial process is among the embodies of "collaborative criminal policy", which has different functions in the scope of criminal law and response to crime and criminality.In fact, the failure of the criminal justice system in preventing delinquency by resorting to unilateral and repressive approaches led scholars of the criminal rights to think about the policies of "non-intervention of criminal rights" or in its modified form, "limiting its intervention in the criminal process" and instead of that, introducing more people and social institutions.The conclusion of the research is that Iran's criminal justice system influenced by the developments of criminal sciences and inspired by the basics of jurisprudential and trusted by civil society and in order to take advantage of popular participation capacity and social institutions, proceed to predicting institutions such as criminal mediation, recognizing non-govermental organizations and alternative penalties.This matter in Imamiyah jurisprudence as the main source of Iran's criminal law has emerged obviously in all stages of criminal proceedings, even before conducting the criminal process.