The Stigmatization of the Criminal Convicts and Accused the Criminal Security-Oriented Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 (Associate professor at Univ. of Tehran, College of Farabi)

2 (A PhD student of Criminal Law & Criminology)

Abstract

The process of stigmatizing includes strategies and criminal sanctions that its aim is the labelling and shaming the accused and offenders. From the past to the present, it is in Different Countries’ Criminal Justice Systems specially the United States, and now it is more current in the mentioned country for the occurrence of the effective political events and because of governing the security-oriented policy. While having a considerable background, now in the modern penal rules (including the penal codes codified 1392 and the criminal procedure codified 1392), the labelling categorization in the criminal system of Iran has accepted and obliged that its instances in the law of Iran such as the law of America are one of the manifestation of the criminal surveillance policy. So, in this research, meanwhile reviewing the meaning and concept of labelling, it has been tried to be observed this category from the point of the manifestations of the criminal security-orientation. The result indicates that Iran legislature excessively has been inclined to label persons and it is necessary to reconsidered.
 

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