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

Nadia Aghtaie; Jo C Staines

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

Nadia Aghtaie, Jo C Staines

School for Policy Studies

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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

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	387-402
Number of pages	16
Journal	Critical Criminology: An International Journal
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09605-4
Publication status	Published - 2 Mar 2022

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Structural violence; cultural violence, Iran, religion, youth.

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

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