Sentencing to Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Delinquency after the Ratification of Islamic Penal Code 2013

Minors and juvenile are susceptible to delinquency and their circumstances require a differential criminal policy. Retributive responses deemed to be inefficient and fail to rehabilitate for juvenile delinquency particularly. Criminal justice systems, across the world, try to use a rehabilitative punishment toward minors and juvenile in recent decades. Iranian criminal justice system also has accepted these rehabilitative mechanisms regarding juvenile delinquent. By passing the Islamic Criminal Code (2012) the new extreme developments has emerged. Judges and prosecutors in the practice should accompany with these developments. Findings of this article show that judges and prosecutors are reluctant to use these new mechanisms because of many reasons such as lack of required infrastructures, tendency of judges and public to traditional punishments and so on which is can be subject of another independent research.