Public Interest in Criminal Procedure and Its Challenges: An Attitude toward Iranian Criminal Law (original) (raw)

Gradual Transformation of Public Interest Theory and its Status in Iranian Constitution Law

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2015

Public interest theory in governance and its reflection in Constitution Law are recently emerging in public law literature. Its concept and function differs country-by-country based on governing ideology of the society. Liberal states usually construe this theory by considering individual orientation and social states by society priority. The concept of public interest and the mechanism to achieve it in law and ethics philosophy in general and in Iranian Constitution in particular is a disputing discussion. We assume that any school construes public interest by its selected ideology in law philosophy and political theory. Likewise, by Iranian Constitution Law, it is perceived that respecting expediency especially “system expediency” has broad usage in governance especially upon revolution. Although respecting customary expediency does not seem so surprising.

Iranian Judiciary Facing Human Rights Norms or Islamic Criteria

The function of the courts in the Iranian post-Islamic revolution constitutional law may be analyzed by reference to a number of different considerations of procedural reforms: the abolition of pre-revolution courts; the establishment of new courts such as the clerical and the revolutionary one; the matter of radical changes due to procedural criminal law aiming to "Islamicize" the judicial system; and the classes of situations in which court's jurisdiction may be raised. On the other hand, the introduction of Islamic decisive factors as the basis for judgments resulting in the obvious challenges to the international norms, the nature characteristics and effects of the remedies and sanctions they may award, and many other matters can be listed in the substantive evolutions. A comprehensive analysis would be unbearably wordy and recurring. However, a brief preliminary survey may help to provide a clearer image of the judiciary in Iran. This article along with a constitutional overview of the judicial system in Iran and its preparedness for protection of human rights, attempts to illustrate, albeit briefly, the important aspects of the International human rights under the criminal codes of the post-Islamic revolution in Iran.

Judicial responsibility of state in protection of citizen's rights versus human rights violations; focusing on the judicial system of Iran

International journal of humanities and social sciences, 2016

Without state's legal protections, realization of human rights purposes is a troublesome issue. State must decide to preserve individuals and nationals public freedoms. The establishment of an adequate monitoring system can control authorities, prevent them to breach human rights and also conduct them in order to perform their duties. Due to this fact, establishing special judicial bodies, pursuing human rights petitions of citizens versus states, seems to be a necessary and undeniable point. In this assay, researchers ,with examining of the foundations, principles and the extent of state judicial responsibility, show that in Iran, there is no special judicial body for protection of human rights and present structure of judicial bodies, cannot protect and apply human rights of citizens, Comprehensively.

Background of Achieving a Realistic Legislative Criminal Policy in Iranian Penal Laws

Cuestiones Políticas

For a criminal policy, in the broadest sense, to be successful and compatible with a realistic view of the criminal phenomenon in the field of pragmatism judgment and to achieve its objectives, it needs a background which, in its absence, not only laws based on realistic criminal policy fail, but their application in such a situation will cause a double damage to society: legal and moral. Apply methods of social prevention in the economic and cultural dimension, observing the principle of minimum criminal law, the mandatory anticipation of the presentation of a personality profile in all crimes committed and finally, the establishment of a care administration to comply with the implementation of realistic laws in the best possible way. It is concluded that this path that combines criminal policy and pragmatic legal realism is one of the desired areas in question in the field of criminal investigation in Iran. This research, which is conducted using the content analysis method, ident...