Decriminalization from the perspective of human rights and criminology

Today, one of the basic challenges in the discussion of laws is excessive resorting to the guarantee of criminal execution and subsequently limiting the freedoms of individuals, imposing exorbitant costs on the government and also interrupting the functioning of the judicial system. Considering the effectiveness of resorting to other measures In order to deal with the criminal phenomenon in order to reform and rehabilitate criminals and prevent re-commitment of crimes and reduce the inflation of the criminal population, the legislative criminal policy of most countries, including Iran, has moved towards the idea of limiting the scope of the intervention of the criminal system. The legislator of Iran, with the help of human rights doctrines and the latest findings of criminology in order to reduce the burden of the criminal system and by predicting mechanisms such as postponing the issuance of the sentence and suspension of the execution of the sentence, parole, alternative punishments of imprisonment, etc. It has adopted the approach of decriminalization as a way in the policy of retreating the criminal system.