The study of semi-liberty System with Emphasize to the Penal Policy of Iran

Semi-liberty is one of the main characteristics of the principle of punishment individualization and is one of the ways to support the part time liberty of the delinquent in order to reduce the jail population, however, emphasizing a permanent surveillance. On the one hand, this helps with the family stability of a criminal and on the other fosters the gradual reform of the criminals. With the proliferation of the culture of law-orientation and presenting modern theories about penal philosophy by the experts in criminology in the twentieth century, jail is identified as a punishment and various law systems have tried to mitigate the negative consequences of jail by just using jails as a punishment for the criminal without hurting their families. The question author s focus on is what semi liberty is on the basis of crime justification? And where the system is situated in the criminal policy? Semi-liberty system is the system which can be studied from a deontological and utilitarian perspective with an emphasis on crime justification. In other words, penal codes of modern systems take advantage to punish and reform delinquents in a way that they have least distance from the society. Thus, in line with the penal codes of advanced countries, Iran's penal code system has allocated the seventh section of Islamic penal code to semi-liberty since 2014. According to the related literature, this paper is aimed at studying the semi-liberty system and different aspects of it within the penal policy of Iran.