The Role of the Imposed Educational Environment in the Prevention of Children and Adolescents Crimes in Iran and England

In criminal justice for juvenile offenders in Iran and England, one of the most common ways to deal with offending children and adolescents is, to keep them in closed places. However, the main difference between these places and ordinary prisons is expressed in this institutes' goal that is the prevention of future crimes for juvenile and reform of their behaviors. Therefore, the imposed environment should be inclined using education plan for upbringing children and adolescents that are potentially problematic and made them an effective learning environment for crime prevention. This article discusses the effective role of imposed and effective learning environments and these environments' problems for educating juvenile offenders with a comparative approach in Iran and England. The findings of thi s study show that, although education-based programs are implemented in both countries with focusing on the prevention of juvenile/youth delinquency, but the status of detention centers is still far from an ideal place.