The Judiciarys Law Journal

The Judiciarys Law Journal

Characteristics of the desirable model of restorative justice programs in cases of sexual violence: A look at the Iranian judicial discourse

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

Author
Sepideh Mirmajidi
Assistant Professor of Law, Research Institute for Political Studies and International Relations and Law, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
10.22106/jlj.2021.137409.3709
Abstract
In the latest edition of the 2020 Restorative Justice Handbook, restorative justice is defined as any program that uses restorative processes to achieve restorative goals and outcomes. This definition shows that restorative justice adheres to common goals, norms, and criteria for adopting restorative measures in various legal, social, cultural, and economic contexts, without being limited to an ideal pattern, procedure, or process.So, the desirability of a restorative justice program does not depend on a particular model, but on having features that can bring restorative interventions as close as possible to the goals and outcomes of restorative justice. Accordingly, this article, which is qualitative in nature and descriptive-analytical in method, addresses two main issues: First. What are the characteristics of a desirable model of restorative justice; desirability in terms of the extent to which the most restorative goals and values ​​are achieved, regardless of the model of restorative justice and second. using the method of interviewing twenty judges of criminal court (1) in a Tehran province and thirty victims of sexual violence (both men and women), also addresses this issue that if a judge's restorative interpretations are to be one step away from the status quo in cases of sexual violence and contain more and more features necessary to achieve the most restorative values, then what is the procedure? The result of the research shows that "using trained actors of restorative justice in criminal courts", in the current conditions of the Iranian criminal justice system, is a procedure that can represents the most number of features of a desirable model in these cases.
Keywords
Restorative justice
Desirable model
criminal justice system
victim
needs
sexual violence

Subjects

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The Judiciarys Law Journal
Volume 85, Issue 114
Spring 2021
Pages 433-463

  • Receive Date 01 October 2020
  • Revise Date 21 January 2021
  • Accept Date 20 January 2021
  • First Publish Date 07 March 2021
  • Publish Date 22 June 2021