Criminal justice success stories — for example, the sustained reduction in crime in major U.S. cities during the past fifteen years — are poured over by officials from around the world in an effort to distill the lessons and replicate the accomplishments . Best practice manuals, providing protocols intended to guarantee success, are in abundant supply . At the same time, in the criminal justice...

since the last few years, criminal policy authorities of iran started to withdraw their previous emphasis on repressive approaches and under the impact of criminological studies and translation of policy initiatives in western countries new concept and vocabulary were entered into official discourse and criminal justice policy of iran. consequently, a list of community-based approaches to crimi...

theorization in the realm of criminal policy is badlyneeded by the country. lack of coherent, indigenouspattern of managing activities dealing with offence anddeviation causes lack of harmony of governmentalinstitutions invested with administrative affairs, and thiswill lead to nothing but drop of standards of criminaljustice in iran. although approaching criminal justice iniran is primarily an...

one of the most important necessities that victimology requires at least within criminal sciences is to create a general theory describing and explaining all concepts, theories and hypotheses which may be used in this scientific sphere. the present article seeks to introduce such a theory, using key terminologies formed the literature and content of victimology from beginning of its emergence s...

the causation (tasbib) is a ground of liability in law which leads to compensation of damages in civil law and punishment in criminal law. as causation being discussed in both civil law and criminal law separately, it is generally perceived that the causation in civil law is different from that of criminal law. by reviewing the roots and conditions of causation, it becomes clear that the nature...

the decision of court and public prosecution in criminal matter has a absolute res judicats. the main conditions of res judicats (cause, object and person unity) become mooted in criminal law again, but criminal law is differ from civil law in this matter. in civil law, res judicats consider according to general conditions but criminal law can not consider upon those conditions. many cases, spe...

The Nuremberg trial, later followed by the Tokyo trial, is a milestone in the development of international law. For the first time in modern history, the leaders of a defeated country were indicted for committing serious crimes jeopardizing the bases of peaceful coexistence among individual human beings and peoples: crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. German objections...

Within policing there is widespread promotion and use of questionable psychologically rooted practices as well as the acceptance of erroneous beliefs about police work. For instance, the articles composing this special issue show that dubious practices—hypnotic interviewing, polygraph examination, criminal profiling, critical incident stress debriefing, and detecting of deception solely on the ...