Capability of Iran's Criminal Justice System in Preventing Violence against Children from the Perspective of UN Standards

Despite the emphasis on legalization and reduction of formal and criminal interventions for children and adolescents, their entry and interaction with the judicial system as a delinquent child, victim or witness of crime and children at risk of delinquency or victimization is inevitable. The criminal justice system must be free of all forms of violence against children and prevent child victimization within the justice system. This study was conducted to examine this issue from the perspective of UN standards.

This research has two parts: description and comparison. In the explanation section of each of the comparison parties, a descriptive method was used and in the comparison and evaluation section of UN documents and Iranian criminal procedure laws, the analytical method was used. For this purpose, documents related to juvenile justice were collected from library sources and complied with the Iranian Code of Criminal Procedure.

This study showed that some of the challenges in preventing violence against children in Iran with the recent regulations and the adoption of the Code of Criminal Procedure in 1, the Law on the Protection of Children and Adolescents in 3, the bill on the establishment of a special police and Juveniles, the by-laws of the Prisons and Security and Training Organization, and the by-laws of mediation have been repealed, and others still need to be regulated.