Analysis of the Role of Community-Oriented Police in the Light of Restorative Justice (with an Emphasis on the Criminal System)
Subject Areas : Jurisprudence and Criminal Law DoctrinesSEYYED SAJJAD razzaghi mousavi 1 , mehrdad rayejianasli 2
1 - Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran
2 - Assistant Professor of Criminal Law & Criminology, Tehran, Iran
Deputy of Research and Dean of Human Rights Department
in UNESCO Chair of Human Rights, Peace and Democracy
Keywords: Restorative justice, criminal justice system, judicial system, community-oriented approach, restorative police, counseling and support units of police stations,
Abstract :
Receive Date: 2023/01/01 Revise Date: 2023/04/30 Accept Date: 2023/05/07 Police institutions, which have a long archaism in different societies, were formed with the main purpose of maintaining public order and preventing crime occurrence. This institution, like public order, has evolved over the past decades in accordance with the evolution of the society's understanding of the criminal phenomenon and has shifted from traditional approaches to the new and community-oriented approaches. Nowadays, countries have faced an increase in crimes, which has caused insecurity and mistrust to the police in the society. In order to deal with this insecurity and mistrust, the governments decided to decentralize the police and also assign an important role to the society in fighting against crimes. Also, according to the current society's need for a police model which is different from the traditional police model, a restoration police was formed to respond to these needs. By using the descriptive-analytical method, the following article acknowledges the important and influential role of the police in resolving disputes and criminal issues as one of the actors of the criminal justice system. Among the most important preventive strategies of community-oriented police, we can point out the realization of interactive police instead of repressive police, the realization of ethical police instead of forceful police and playing the role of warning police instead of chasing police. On the other hand, changing the strategy from violent policies to participation-oriented criminal policies and also moving in the direction of community-oriented police model governance are among these requirements. In other words, the implementation of rehabilitation programs in the police organization requires the trust of the victims in the police as well as dignified behavior towards the victims.
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