Abstract
This 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 refects on how an alternative to execution, the payment of blood money,
diyah, mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused to child ofenders convicted of Qesas
ofenses and how diyah is used by Iranian authorities to avoid fulflling their legal obligations to
children who ofend. 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 refects on recent improvements in the legal system
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 refects on how an alternative to execution, the payment of blood money,
diyah, mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused to child ofenders convicted of Qesas
ofenses and how diyah is used by Iranian authorities to avoid fulflling their legal obligations to
children who ofend. 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 refects on recent improvements in the legal system
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 387-402 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Critical Criminology: An International Journal |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Mar 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022, The Author(s).
Keywords
- Structural violence; cultural violence, Iran, religion, youth.
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