Challenges and opportunities of intervention of social workers in the trial process of delinquent juveniles: with emphasis on the views of some judges

In recent years, several laws have been drafted and approved for the presence of social workers in juvenile proceedings, but they are still not implemented. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify the challenges and opportunities of intervention of social workers in the process of juvenile proceedings from the point of view of judges in order to provide plans to improve the position of social workers. Due to the fact that in Iran's judicial system, judges are responsible for the implementation of the law and the non-implementation of the law is to a large extent directed at them, therefore, in this article, the challenges and opportunities of social workers' intervention in juvenile proceedings were questioned. The qualitative research method is based on interviews with thematic analysis technique. Purposive sampling method was available with strong. The studied people include 17 judges. The findings show that the judges agreed on the necessity of the presence of social workers in the judicial system, especially juvenile proceedings. The main axis of the answers are concepts such as professional weakness, system inefficiency as challenges, restorative interventions and facilitating exit from proceedings as an opportunity for the presence and intervention of social workers.