Modifying the Family Context to Deal with Children's Moral Deviation in Islamic Criminal Policy and International Documents

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor and Head of Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought, Qom, Iran

2 Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Criminology, Humanities Higher Education Institute, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran.

10.22034/ijwf.2024.18099.2225

Abstract

The family environment is the first and most important place for the upbringing and formation of children's moral character, and their protection from moral deviation largely depends on the family context. Therefore, it is important and inevitable to modify the family environment to prevent children's moral deviation. This research aimed to investigate measures and strategies for modifying the family environment to deal with children's moral deviation using an analytical-documentary method and with a comparative approach between Islamic criminal policy and international documents. The findings showed that in Islamic criminal policy, the family is formed based on religious morality and parental responsibility, and the Islamic state is obliged to support it. International documents also recognize the role of the family in preventing children's moral deviation, and governments are obliged to provide an appropriate supportive and educational context. Islam pays attention to both the material and spiritual dimensions of humans. Therefore, the measures adopted in Islamic criminal policy to deal with the factors that lead to children's moral deviations in the family environment are more comprehensive and robust than international documents, which have a human-centered approach and pay less attention to spiritual dimensions.
 

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