Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence

Published:2022-03-02 Issue:2 Volume:30 Page:387-402
ISSN:1205-8629
Container-title:Critical Criminology
language:en
Short-container-title:Crit Crim

Author:

Aghtaie Nadia,Staines Jo

Abstract

AbstractThis article explores how the concepts of strucutral violence and cultural violence can explain the institutionalization and normalization of violence in children’s lives in Iran, including the use of the death penalty, thereby providing a mechanism through which such violence can be challenged. The paper reflects on how an alternative to execution, the payment of blood money, diyah, mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused to child offenders convicted of Qesas offenses and how diyah is used by Iranian authorities to avoid fulfilling their legal obligations to children who offend. The article argues that eradicating child execution and the payment of blood money is dependent on challenging the structural violence that is embedded within Iran’s legal structures and it reflects on recent improvements in the legal system.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Law,Sociology and Political Science

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10612-022-09605-4.pdf

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