Document Type : scientific

Authors

• seyyede zahra Khakshoori ¹
• seyyed mohammad javad sadati ²
• abdolreza Javan Jafari Bojnourdi ³

¹ Master's Student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Ferdwsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

² corresponding author, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Ferdwsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

³ Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

Abstract

The prevalence of corporal punishments in the first decade of the Islamic Revolution and the marginalization of prisons were the result of the dominance of the religious traditionalist discourse. During this period, imprisonment, which had been the primary punishment for most crimes before the revolution, was set aside. While, after some time, the punishment of imprisonment was revived. The question is why imprisonment became marginalized in one period of history, but in another period, it turns to the primary penalty. This paper intends to utilize the field of sociology of culture for a causal analysis of these events. in this paper, among the various approaches relating to the sociology of culture, two approaches have been observed: the classical, which adopts a subjective perspective on culture, and the post-structuralist, which offers an objective perspective on culture. Ultimately, it can be achieved that punishments in general, and imprisonment in particular, are social phenomena influenced by other social phenomena, such as culture. Therefore, prison can be considered as a reflection of the cultural elements of the social system

Keywords

• post-revolution Iran
• cultural sociology
• punishment of imprisonment
• classical approach
• and post-structuralist approach