Differential response to juvenile delinquency

The World Convention on the Rights of the Child, with remedial approaches, has mandated binding strategies for governments to respond to juvenile delinquency. Given the importance of this binding treaty and other international instruments in the field of juvenile rights on the policies of member countries, this article tries to examine the impact of the approach of these documents on Iran's criminal policy against juvenile delinquency.

The research method in this research is descriptive-analytical.

International instruments for responding to delinquent criminal children and adolescents with a discriminatory criminal policy have a corrective-restorative approach and do not allow punitive responses and corporal punishment for children and adolescents. In the Iranian legal system, after the adoption of the Islamic Penal Code adopted in 1392, a discriminatory criminal policy has been adopted against juvenile delinquents and has a corrective-remedial approach, but in some crimes it still has a punitive approach. Therefore, Iran's criminal policy in responding to the crimes of children and adolescents is in accordance with international documents, but in the case of crimes causing hadd and retribution is not consistent. However, although Iran is a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is necessary to abide by its provisions and bring its criminal policy on children and adolescents in line with binding international instruments.