In Iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of Legal Medicine Organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. The duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: Individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

as a rule, crimes are unforgivable. there fore, forgiveness has virtually no effect on criminal liability. it can only lead to a reduction in punishment . for crimes that are unforgivable, forgiveness can become perplexing and confuse legal authorities. the present paper attempts to discuss the complex dimensions of this issue including forgivable and unforgivable crimes, the court's respo...

the ngos are one of the most important state actors. due to useful functions of these organizations, the state has established and codified some regulations regarding their activity. this study sought to explain the issue and their activities in two legal systems of iran and france. in iranian legal system, some regulations exist regarding their foundation and activity which is a bit strict in ...

handling stolen goods has been recognized as an independent offence in both iranian and english law. committing this offence, tacitly support those actions that are called theft. however, penal policy of iran’s legislator does not provide effective fighting against the handlers of stolen goods. in others words, comparing the two iranian and english legal system, make this issue clear that crimi...

Background: The legislative review of the criminal record on the crime of repetition and the severity of the punishment for repeated offenders indicates that the legislator firstly used various laws to include repetition of crime, and in some cases such as drug offenses and for criminal reasons. It has taken into account a certain degree of exacerbation that is markedly different from what is s...

The paper considers the evolution of purpose criminal punishment in sources Russian medieval law with regard to subjective guilt a law-violator. For long time, essence was expressed not so much application sanctions an offender for violating norm behavior (a custom) by latter, but restoring violated order (the truth) and satisfying victim’s resentment causing physical suffering offender, or com...

Subject of research: the institution criminal punishment, state which is often assessed as a crisis. The debatable nature issue crisis punishment generates diametrically opposite judgments about presence crisis, or its absence.
 Purpose to determine absence well conditionality existence discussions punishment.
 Methods and objects dialectical method cognition socio-legal phenomena use...