Challenges to The semi-liberty system in Iran

The semi-liberal system is one of the innovations of the Islamic Penal Code of 1392, which has followed the changes in the criminal sciences in Western countries and in response to the shortcomings of imprisonment, has entered our country's criminal system. In this criminal institution, the convict spends some of his / her sentence outside the prison's harmful environment with the aim of accelerating the process of rehabilitation and correction, as well as reducing the adverse consequences of imprisonment. This penal institution, like other penal beneficial although imported institutions, , faces challenges despite all its constructive consequences. Legal challenges (lack of judicial procedure, ambiguity in enforcement, issuing authority, necessity or non-necessity of request by the convicted person, issuing authority, its connection with other penal institutions, dominance of criminal system imprisonment, less credibility to the criminal arbitrary institutions and also to exclude some crimes from the scope of this criminal institution) and the extrajudicial that is divided two categories of criminology (the challenge of the conventional functions of the criminal justice system and the post-release challenges of imprisonment in the semi-liberal system) as well as the executive (lack of efficient and credible manpower and tending to the imprisonment of judges) ought to deserve to be reminded. This research, which has been written using a descriptive method and using the first category of research resources, seeks to identify the most important challenges and offer appropriate solutions to them to the managers of the Iranian criminal justice system.