Personality Dossier Necessity in Iran Criminal Process

Character is a set of apparent and non-apparent characteristics of one`s behavior that has more stability and manifestations and somewhat predictable. Traditionally، there are disagreements for determinism and authority، some have the full authority، some were fatalists، and the third group respects to the important role of criminal in penal process by reject the recent theories. Recent theory fans necessarily emphases to study the criminal character beside mading a file called “personality identification dossier”. Personality dossier contains the results of studies and medical tests، psychology، psychiatry، and social studies about convicted and sentenced ones. In Iran’s criminal law، some rules such as Articles of 18، 37، 38، 43، 60، 64، 152، 188، etc، Islamic penal code Act of 1392 and Article of 222 from criminal procedure، implicitly، and Articles of 47 and 64 from prisons executive regulation and the country Security and Educational actions، Act of 2005 in the stage of implementing prison sentence، explicitly، addressed to mading personality identification dossier. Field studies conducted in prisons and rehabilitation centers in the country، as evidence that scientifically – practically not making such a document. Different factors impede the proper exercise of judicial decisions and legal establishment in Iran that generally could pointed as Legal، judicial and obstacles barriers. The only way to overcome these impediments is collaborative effort by the three branches (include legislative، executive، and judicial).