The Situation of Reflexive Participatory Criminal Policy in Penal Prosecution Process in Iranian Law

The Participatory Criminal Policy which shows role and situation of people and social and non-state organizations in penal prosecution divides in two types: Active (pragmatic or precautionary) and Reflexive (responder or passive). The main goal of The Active or primitive Participatory Criminal Policy is to prevent committing of crime or decreasing it through upbringing the social behaviors which is called social prevention and shows people's role in decreasing of crime. The goal of Reflexive or second Participatory Criminal Policy is participation of people and social and non-state organizations in penal prosecution after the commitment of crime. In this view, the penal justice institution is no longer just a replier reference for resolution of discrepancy, but also it will be used the people and social organizations capacity in this matter. With people's participation in criminal prosecution process we will see respectability of the people's volition which results enhancement of public trust to the penal justice institution and decreasing of crime. In this article, the main goal is to study the role of people and social and non-state organizations in penal prosecution which will be in three sections: beginning the penal prosecution, resolution of discrepancy and implement of penal contracts based on the new Criminal Procedure Code approved on February 23rd of 2014.