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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...

the united nations has a multiplex criminal policy to fight against genocide, judicial criminal policy being one of the aspects of this policy. rationally, justice requires that the guilty of genocidal acts be punished, the means of redress be provided for victims of such crimes and finally, the international peace and security be established. un judicial criminal policy regarding genocide is r...

Domestic violence, particularly male violence against female partners, has been the focus of tremendous public and policy attention over the past two decades. It is now conventional wisdom that traditional criminal justice responses reflected indifference and even resistance to defining such incidents as crime, but as society’s values and beliefs about the acceptability of such violence have ch...

Background: Islam as a comprehensive religion rooted in human nature and revealed in order to respond to basic human needs has broadened the ethics of its criminal policy to include crime, crime and punishment. In keeping with each other and with the other rules of this religion, it has set guidelines and values ​​based on ethics and principles for avoiding crime in the community if the Prophet...

Editorial Policy—Criminology & Public Policy (CPP) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of criminal justice policy and practice. The central objective of the journal is to strengthen the role of research findings in the formulation of crime and justice policy by publishing empirically based, policy-focused articles. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that contribute to a more in...

This article reviews the current trends and impact of mass incarceration on communities of color, with a focus on criminal justice policy and practice contributors to racial disparity. The impact of these disproportionate incarceration rates on public safety, offenders, and communities are discussed. Recommendations for criminal justice and other policy reforms to reduce unwarranted racial disp...

This paper describes an agent-based approach for constructing a model of criminal justice system operations in England and Wales. The primary purpose of the model is to assess the impact of policy variants across the entire criminal justice system. Because of the structure of this system, three separate government departments interact and deliver services. Decisions in one area of the criminal ...

Recent research in criminology has indicated that the media may influence people’s attitudes toward criminal justice policy. This paper examined attitudes toward gun control among a student population using both ideological (attribution styles) and instrumental perspectives (fear of crime), and then tested whether viewing the film Bowling for Columbine influenced those attitudes. The study empl...