Legislative Situational Prevention from the Torture Crime

Abstract

The right to be free from torture is known as an inalienable right. In article 38 of our Constitution, it has been declared absolutely forbidden. Hence, struggling against torture is of meritorious legal and cultural status. Amid non-suppressive methods, the situational prevention is known as an applicable approach with visible returns. Due to these features, this paper, based on accepting the possibility of exercising the situational prevention on torture crime, deals with recognizing effective situational preventive contrivances in decreasing this crime; contrivances like: contrivance for increasing hardship in committing crimes like immediate access of defendant to judiciary officials, contrivance for omitting justifiers like decreasing the demonstrating value of confession, contrivance for decreasing benefits ensued from crimes like nullifying the information ensued from torture, contrivance for increasing the risk of committing crime like supporting the presence of lawyers in the early processes of judgment and video surveillance during investigation process. In this text we have shown that the best place to predict these contrivances is Code of Criminal Procedure and accordingly recently enacted Iranian Code of Criminal Procedure is examined from this perspective and meanwhile embossing the innovations of this area, we have pointed out some of the removable shortcomings.

Keywords

• "torture"
• "legislative situational prevention"
• "paradigm of deterrence"
• "justifying paradigm"
• "supervision"