Prevention of Victimization of Judiciary's Staff in Iran: Case Study of Broujerd City

Since victim is one of the elements of many of crimes, nowadays, it is undoubtedly, necessary for a successful criminal policy to research about victims and their role in occurrence of crimes. In the meantime, victimization in judiciary is an area that has been less attended. The study of victimization in judiciary is important because, the judiciary has been established to encounter law-breaking, but, evidences indicate interesting amount of crime and victimization in judiciary itself. The present study, using technique of measurement and quantitative method and by means of questionnaire and all-counting method, has examined elements of victimization of judiciary's staff in Broujerd city in 1394. Results indicate that an interesting number of judiciary's staff in Broujerd city (30 percent fully and 22.5 percent more or less) have been victimized especially with regard to crime of insult. Also, the elements of nature of job, difficult conditions relative to job, specifications of clients (especially their ignorance), loss of enough and suitable equipment, specifications of location and weakness of protective measures and official control, have been an important role in victimization of judiciary's staff.