A comparative study of child and teenager crime prevention with emphasis on UK and Iran police (Relying on the Law on the Protection of Children and teenager 1399)

Prevention of child and adolescent crime is of special importance for the police due to the special characteristics of this segment of society. Conducting scientific research through comparative studies provides the basis for more success in this field. Therefore, the present study was formed with the aim of identifying and comparing the programs, powers and practical actions of the British and Iranian police in preventing child and adolescent crime.

This research is applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its method, and the data is collected by the chip sampling method. Its information is taken from library sources and Persian and Latin legal texts.

Some plans, powers and actions of the British and Iranian police were identified and compared. Among the highlights of the UK police: the use of artificial intelligence to increase the monitoring of the activity of children and adolescents in the cyberspace and the creation of common databases to share information about children at risk in order to carry out a rapid interdepartmental response in order to support it is them.

These findings and other cases show that in terms of enforcement, the British police are more concerned, more targeted, more planned, more up-to-date and more practical than the Iranian police. Although the need to form children's police and the need to intervene in dangerous situations is one of the prominent points of Iran's legal criminal policy.