Effective executive factors in increasing the criminal population

Document Type : Original Article

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Criminal and Criminology Department, Bandar Abbas branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

10.48308/jlr.2025.237237.2790

Abstract

In addition to all judicial factors with legal and criminological aspects, there are also a series of executive factors or judicial factors arising from administrative and executive conditions in different social systems,each of which is somehow related to the increase in the criminal population, they are identified and introduced among the effective factors of its aggravation. These factors generally show the perception and understanding of judges and courts on issues such as the quality and efficiency of the intervention of non-governmental sectors in responding to various crimes,which in many legal systems have not yet gained a favorable position, and these factors are really among ones that increase the criminal population. In this article, with a descriptive and analytical method, the most effective executive factors in the phenomenon of the increase in the criminal population are discussed. The findings of the research show that issues such as statism and lack of sufficient time for the courts to deal with cases, distrust of courts and their problems in communicating with non-governmental sectors and the executive branch in implementing the system of alternatives to imprisonment,and individual,cultural and social bases that are effective in the tendency of judges to incarcerate, the involvement of non-judicial authorities who defend incarceration in proceedings and the lack of supervision by higher decision-making authorities on the way of extreme judicial incarceration are among the most obvious factors influencing the increase in the prison population. They are considered that any way of ignoring them will be crisis-creating and even anti-normative.

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 26 January 2025
  • Receive Date: 14 October 2024
  • Revise Date: 16 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 26 January 2025