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Faculty Member of Shahid Beheshti University Law School Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology
10.22034/jlr.2020.184186.1433
Abstract
Police diversion has a long history in England as a means by which the police try to prevent low-level offenders from entering into the criminal process. In fact, due to its compliance with the Common law legal system and the governance of the accusatorial system over its criminal prosecution and the absence of the prosecution service, at least until a few decades ago, the police were considered as the main agency at the pre-trial stage and had almost most prosecution and diversion powers. Currently, it has major discretion in stopping criminal proceedings or preventing offenders from entering into the criminal justice system, which is referred to as the "out of court disposals". The police exercise these statutory and more discretionary powers in the summary and either-away offenses. The tendency of the country's penal system to police diversion has more historical, criminological, and pragmatic fundamentals. On the other hand, Iran's criminal justice system is based on Civil Law, and the polices are an executive under the jurisdiction of the judiciary and have not been given diversion power by law. However, they are taking some measures that can be termed police diversion. Police diversion is also facing challenges, most notably conflict with the principle of judicial punishment or principle of nulla poena sine iudicio.
roodsarabi, H., & mehra, N. (2022). Police Diversion in the England Criminal Justice System; Justifications and Examples. Legal Research, 24(96), 113-138. doi: 10.22034/jlr.2020.184186.1433
MLA
hasan roodsarabi; nasrin mehra. "Police Diversion in the England Criminal Justice System; Justifications and Examples". Legal Research, 24, 96, 2022, 113-138. doi: 10.22034/jlr.2020.184186.1433
HARVARD
roodsarabi, H., mehra, N. (2022). 'Police Diversion in the England Criminal Justice System; Justifications and Examples', Legal Research, 24(96), pp. 113-138. doi: 10.22034/jlr.2020.184186.1433
VANCOUVER
roodsarabi, H., mehra, N. Police Diversion in the England Criminal Justice System; Justifications and Examples. Legal Research, 2022; 24(96): 113-138. doi: 10.22034/jlr.2020.184186.1433