Pattern of Responsibility for children and Juvenile’s crimes in Iran's Judiciary (Case study: At the level of justice in Mazandaran province)

One of the important issues related to child and adolescent crime is the adoption of a response pattern that can generally be considered in the four types of restorative, criminal, estimated and rehabilitation. An attempt has been made to investigate the issue in the territory of the Iranian legal and judicial system using the field method. The methodology used in this study is qualitative and is based on the data base method. The statistical population is composed of a number of judges of justice in Mazandaran province, assistants of the Correctional Center and professors familiar with children's and adolescent rights. Samples were purposefully selected and interview was used in data collection. The data were analyzed in two parts: descriptive and inferential. The results of this study have shown that three types of response patterns namely criminal, restorative and rehabilitation patterns can be used in Iranian criminal policy regarding how juvenile and juvenile offenses are dealt with, but the estimated pattern is not relevant, but how the criminal justice system is treated. In juvenile and juvenile offenses in Mazandaran province it is sometimes maximized and sometimes minimized, so that at the level of judicial procedure of juvenile and juvenile courts in Mazandaran province more use of the two patterns of criminal response and rehabilitation according to the age of individuals can be made. Is identified and the use of the less restorative pattern observed in judicial verdicts has been.