Restorative Justice; To the international discourse on human rights practices in Iran and Canada

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Restorative justice tries to manage shareholders of criminal phenomenon and with improving the efficiency of the criminal justice system seeks to redress and repair the damages caused by crime and involvement of people, local communities, criminals and victims in a collaborate environment. In this paper, the credibility and status of restorative justice in the legalsocial system in Iran and Canada are discussed.

Present paper is attributive and used library-based resources.

Restorative justice has different principles and is executed in the form of several methods such as mediation, family group conferencing and victim- offender circles. Today, because of the ability of restorative justice, many countries implement it. Iran still does not have much influence on the discourse of restorative justice in the legal system and still certain models of the classic criminal justice rules on it, which in several respects cannot permit intervention of local communities and victims of crimes and gives prevailed power to the judiciary system as the main authority. Canada is among leading countries that institutionalized this discourse in its legal system, and uses reconciliative procedure for many crimes.

The present study shows the existence of a systematic practice of restorative justice in the criminal policy of Canada and its apparent interaction approach to criminal policy in Iran.