Effects of Restorative Justice on Iranian Criminal Law and International Documents

Restorative justice has been around since the last three decades and in the last half of the twentieth century in the light of modern criminological developments with the idea of the judiciary and secretarial code approach to resolving conflicts and efficient public participation as a theory of criminal justice. Or complement the classic pattern of domestic and international criminal justice. The Iranian legislature has also been considering this restorative approach in legislating laws. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of restorative justice on Iranian criminal law and International documents.

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of writing, it is a descriptive-analytical research. The information was collected through library study and access to domestic and foreign academic and electronic resources.

Findings and Results:

The results suggest that the UN Charter requires its members to resolve international disputes through peaceful means. the anticipation of the legal establishment of the postponement of punishment, first introduced by the French Penal Code on July 11, 1975, is a new step towards restoring criminal justice. the Iranian legislature also introduced aspects of the restorative approach to criminal law with the formation of the House of Justice and the Arbitration Council (before the revolution) and the formation of the Dispute Resolution Council (after the revolution). Recently, it has provided for articles 80, 81, 8283, 217 and 283 CC (2013); ) It has incorporated aspects of this movement into Iranian criminal law.