فصلنامه خانواده پژوهی (Mar 2016)
The Role of Family in Responding to Juvenile Delinquents by Emphasizing the Islamic Criminal Code (2013)
Abstract
Family plays the most important role in children’s socialization and formation of their personality. The initial aim of the juvenile criminal justice system is educating and intervening to prevent the development of personality pathologies resulting in delinquency. Therefore, it is important to have an appropriate family response to achieve this aim. In addition, family intervention has a crucial role in developmental prevention in juvenile criminal justice. Iran’s Islamic Criminal Code (2013) has taken these key issues into consideration and has paid attention to the family as a solution. In other words, at the outset and in accordance with custody regulations, the first choice is to place the child in the custody of the family, and in the next step, the family is committed to the implementation of the courtordered rehabilitative measures in order to realize the main objectives of corrective and rehabilitative functions of the system.