Nature of Criminal Actions and Criminal Responsibility of Mentally Retarded Persons

Criminal responsibility of mentally disordered people is of issues that has been unnoticed in the criminal laws of this country. These are people whose intellectual and mental growth have remained undeveloped and therefore are lower than ordinary people in society in terms of IQ. It is required to explain although these people have been exempted from criminal resposibility in famous jurisprudence books in our law, there is great controversy among lawyers. In general, it appears these people lack criminal responsibility but possibility of criminal reaction against the criminal action in form of security and teaches actions exits. This essay, tries to introduce these people to distinguish persons of its subject. By examining of reasons why criminal actions of these people are crime in practice. Later, a judicial decision as to criminal responsibility of these people will be explained.