Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

The Status of the Personality Profile in the criminal justice process of children and adolescents (Case study of Hamedan city)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Golnaz Hayati 1
Mehri barzegar 2
1 Bu-Ali Sina University
2 Shahid Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Street
10.22034/jclc.2024.424949.1943
Abstract
The policy of correction and treatment and individualization of punishments can only be achieved by identifying the personality of the perpetrator and the risk and protective factors, and the personality profile is a tool for implement of this policy. Including extensive personal, family, social, and criminal information, the personality profile is crucially important in juvenile cases, due to the impairment of cognitive development. This is confirmed in Article 286 of the Criminal Procedure Law. However, the law is silent about the impact of it on the judge's decision. The manner of filing it in Iran and its great distance from the standard tests based on the model of risk-need-responsibility creates the ambiguity that the insufficiency of the laws may lead to incomplete and bureaucratic implementation. In order to resolve this vagueness, applying the method of secondary and quantitative analysis of data, 43 personality files from the criminal cases of juveniles in 2023 were examined in the Criminal Branch 2 of the juvenile Court of Hamedan and their rulings were studied and the vital information was copied from their personality profile.
    The findings of the research indicate that personality profile has been prepared for all juveniles accused of 4th to 6th degree of Ta’ziri crimes, but the questions are far from the standards of assessing the delinquency of juveniles and there is no accurate method to determine the risk level of juvenile recidivism and the decisions of judges are not much affected by the contents of the personality profile.
Keywords
Juvenile Delinquency
Personality Profile
Clinical Criminology
Risk/ Protective Factors
R.N.R Model
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Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Volume 12, Issue 23
September 2024
Pages 231-260