Ethical Basics of Preventive Criminal Policy in the Face of Violence against Children
Akhlāq-i zīstī i.e., Bioethics Journal,
Vol. 11 No. 1 (1400),
2 November 2021
,
Page 273-282
https://doi.org/10.22037/bioeth.v11i1.36752
Abstract
Background and Aim: As one of the criminal policy’s dimensions, preventive criminal policy underlines the penal and non-penal aspects as a way of preventing the criminal and unlawful actions. This policy can take an ethical color when it is deployed before the violence against children. The present study tries investigating the ethical basics of the preventive criminal policy in the face of the violence against children.
Materials and Methods: In the present study, a descriptive-analytical method has been applied. The materials have also been gathered by taking notes and referring to the legal texts and other related documents and articles.
Ethical Considerations: In order to organize this research, while observing the authenticity of the texts, honesty and fidelity have been observed.
Findings: Preventive criminal policy focusing on moral principles, including the inherent dignity of human beings in general and children in particular, helping children because of their age and biological conditions to prevent them from entering delinquent environments and being victimized, preventing children from being harmed when committing delinquent acts and after that, and so paying attention to children's imitability and role modeling of delinquent and criminal behaviors, it considers preventive criminal measures.
Conclusion: Ethical solutions in the field of preventive criminal policy are responding to violence against children in the non-criminal field, including eliminating delinquent and violent acts in the family environment, modifying the behavior of family members specially parents, modifying the environment and educational places such as schools and educational institutions that affect children, producing media and cultural content to help children to report cases of victimization and delinquency, creating a friendly environment for children to depend on family members. In the criminal field, applying differential criminal policy, separating children and adults from criminals in environments such as courts and prosecutor's offices, strengthening socialistic approaches and tolerance towards children's criminal acts with the aim of correcting their behavior are among the approaches that can prevent violence against children.
Please cite this article as: Waghary SH, Masoud GH-H, Shekarchizadeh M. Ethical Basics of Preventive Criminal Policy in the Face of Violence against Children. Bioethics Journal, Special Issue on Ethical & Legal Reflections 2021; 273-282.
- Criminal Policy; Prevention; Violence; Children; Ethics
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