Public sector awareness of people’s attitudes toward punishment for various crimes can help to increase the compatibility of laws with public opinion. Whereas this issue has attracted significant attention in a number of countries, little research has been conducted on it in Iran.This article examines the attitudes of a sample of 320 students, toward punishments for various crimes. Findings indicate the existence of a significant gap between verdicts suggested by students for a number of crimes and those given by the Iranian Penal Code. Specifically, students’ suggested verdicts are less severe and non-corporal in nature. Further analysis of the data also reveals that the gap is influenced by socio-demographic variables such as religiosity, level of development, level of urbanization, years of university education, perceived seriousness of crime, age and gender. Religiosity and perceived seriousness of crime have a positive relation with the above gap.
Jafari, A., & Serajzadeh, S. H. (2012). Crime and Punishment: Comparing Verdicts Suggested by a Sample of University Students for Certain Crimes with the Iranian Penal Code. Journal of Social Problems of Iran, 2(1), -.
MLA
Ahmad Jafari; Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh. "Crime and Punishment: Comparing Verdicts Suggested by a Sample of University Students for Certain Crimes with the Iranian Penal Code", Journal of Social Problems of Iran, 2, 1, 2012, -.
HARVARD
Jafari, A., Serajzadeh, S. H. (2012). 'Crime and Punishment: Comparing Verdicts Suggested by a Sample of University Students for Certain Crimes with the Iranian Penal Code', Journal of Social Problems of Iran, 2(1), pp. -.
VANCOUVER
Jafari, A., Serajzadeh, S. H. Crime and Punishment: Comparing Verdicts Suggested by a Sample of University Students for Certain Crimes with the Iranian Penal Code. Journal of Social Problems of Iran, 2012; 2(1): -.
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