Hamyar Jahed Specialized Cultural Publications and In collaboration with the Iranian Scientific Society of Criminology

Social interest based on tolerance in criminal law punishments

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Criminal law and criminology, Islamic Azad University, Semnan branch

2 Qom University of Islamic Studies

Abstract
The scope of postponement is limited to Ta’zir crimes of the fifth to eighth degree. Considering that some Ta’zir crimes less than the fifth degree, crimes subject to Hadd, Qisas, and Diyah are affected by the victim’s forgiveness, it can be considered a good opportunity to gain the plaintiff’s satisfaction in the pre-trial and post-trial stages and, as a result, the offender’s release from punishment. In unforgivable crimes, it also provides a reason for mitigation, conversion, and implementation of alternative punishments. Finally, the greater attention of Iranian criminal policy decision-makers to the postponement strategy, which is based on expediency tolerance, rationality, and criminal tolerance, restorative justice, etc., plays an effective role in organizing the system and managing criminal justice. Our country, in adopting the Islamic Penal Code of 2013, based on rich Sharia sources and Islamic standards; The Quran, tradition and institutions of tolerance and opportunity, such as suspension of execution of punishment, are confirmed by reason with the approach of new institutions such as exemption from punishment, postponement of sentence, alternatives to imprisonment, in the section of Ta'zir style punishments, levels 6, 5, and 8. The aforementioned tolerance institutions before, during, and after determining the punishment are closely related to many concepts of progressive criminal policy such as human dignity, individualization of criminal justice, decriminalization, etc. This article uses a descriptive, analytical, and library method, and it can be inferred that the examples and scope of tolerance and tolerance in tolerance institutions and social interest and the conditions and circumstances of the individual such as suspension of prosecution, postponement of prosecution, postponement of sentence, mediation, archiving of the case, etc. in crimes subject to hadd, qisas, diyat, and especially Ta'zir punishments can be implemented by observing the principles and standards of Sharia.

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 14 December 2025

  • Receive Date 09 November 2025
  • Revise Date 06 December 2025
  • Accept Date 14 December 2025