Compulsive Geniture or Voluntary Departure “A review or the, consequences of criminalization and decriminalization on abortion”

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Reza  Mohajerin ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2015-07-13 Accepted : 2015-07-13 Published : 2009-01-20

Keywords: Abortion, criminalization, Decriminalization, criminal policy, Penal Reaction,

Abstract :

This article examines various aspects of abortion from a criminological perspective. Theseaspects are distinguished from each other on basis of their nature and sources for its betterunderstanding and convenient studying.Although according to Islamic Criminal law abortion is a violent crime and thereforeoffenders are imposed severe punishment, the necessity of taking a different approach to ourlaw is unavoidable. Because of direction of applying protective policies to them in conformationwith International standards on the one hand, and vulnerabilities to violent behaviors andincrease of next crimes on the other hand, decriminalization from abortion is a must.Hence, criminalization of abortion is the basis of creating further crimes and decriminalizationof abortion will prevent further crimes