Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (Feb 2015)
Dangerous Offenders Supervision; Challenges and Solutions .............
Abstract
One of the issues in the domain of law and criminology texts which hasreceived special attention in the recent years is offenders supervision,especially dangerous offenders; supervisions which aim at protecting societyagainst the severe crimes committed by dangerous offenders.These sort of supervisions might lead to some law and criminologychallenges. The present researches have rarely paid attention to thechallenges of offenders supervision or merely referred to the concerns andproblems of one of the dimensions of supervision- by relying on foreignreference. Therefore, the present article seeks to express the most prominentchallenges on offender supervision and provides working procedure toremove them by aiming at taking benefit from statutes in Iran and relying onthe findings of a comparative study.Making the criminal justice practitioners aware of the findings and mostimportant practical challenges of supervision programs in other countriescan either lead to effective enactment of laws and designing a supervisionprogram on dangerous offenders or lead to reform the relevant laws. Theachievement of the present research is that the issue of supervisingdangerous offenders is facing with many failures and problems fromdifferent dimensions such as: conceptually; due to the lack of a clear borderbetween this concept and similar ones; on the definition; due to the lack of alegal criterion and evidence for crime and dangerous offender; and alsofrom the viewpoint of legality and execution. Hence, along with anexpression of the concept of supervision, suggesting the solutions for legaldefinition of crime and dangerous offenders and indication of supervisorytactics i.e. Register, Community Notification in order to improvementofficers’ role on dangerous offenders control is truly necessary.
