Reduced criminal responsibility for juvenile crimes in Iran's criminal policy and the English legal system

 the assumption of the criminal justice system is that relative criminal responsibility begins at the age of 9 and ends at the age of 18. In the new Islamic Penal Law, in a commendable step, the Iranian legislator, by accepting reduced criminal responsibility in punishment crimes for children and adolescents, defined three stages of time after the realization of legal maturity, the beginning of criminal responsibility up to the age of eighteen years as full criminal responsibility, in has considered

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and adolescents is accepted as a principle in terms of age, intellect and criminal development. The age of 9 and 10 is chosen as the minimum age in the laws of Iran and England, respectively. Criminal responsibility is very low and it is not in accordance with the biological, mental and psychological conditions and the realities in the lives of children and adolescents and the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. On the other hand, despite the acceptance of relative criminal responsibility in the laws of Iran and England, the laws of Iran do not accept this type of responsibility. It has been accepted in Ta'ziri crimes and has not been accepted in punishable crimes, therefore, in these crimes,