SHORT TERM IMPRISONMENTS IN THE SENTENCE SYSTEM OF IRAN

The short term imprisonments have been eliminated from the sentence system of many countries.It is said that since the objectives of sentences have not been met, the short term imprisonments have been eliminated.Many of Lawyers argue that lack of adequate opportunity for recognizing the personality of criminal (observation) and subsequently Lack of enough time for reform and resocializing the criminal, are main reasons for useless of such sentences.The legislator in our country has taken significant step in Line with the elimination of short term imprisonments by adopting the article 3 of the act for reception of some state incomes and their consumptions in specified cases.Some of our Lawyers believe that basically and generally by adoption of this article beyond its precedent, the short term imprisonments have been eliminated from the sentence system of our country. Some of them also believe that the said article 3, could not totally eliminate the short term imprisonments and only executing short term imprisonments have been prohibited in the specified cases by such article.