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This 10 page paper discusses the criminal justice system in Iran, to include corrections, juvenile justice, punishments, and government, and how they compare to the U.S. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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region known as the Middle East. As in most cases, neither view is correct. This paper considers the current justice systems in operation in Iran; it also discusses Irans criminal
justice system as opposed to that of the United States. Discussion Perhaps the beginning point for this discussion should be the codification of Iranian laws. Iran is an old country,
with a civilization that goes back thousands of years. The Parthian Empire in Iran can "legitimately be compared to the Elder Han in China, and the following Sasanian Empire (third-seventh
centuries ad) to the Later Han" (Diakonoff, 1999, p. 72). Under the Sasanian dynasty "independent cities perish; in their place appear administrative centres, royal military headquarters ruled by royal servants"
(Diakonoff, 1999, p. 72). At first the Sasanian Empire was similar to a confederation of kingdoms but later it tended toward a centralized structure (Diakonoff, 1999). The Sasanian society was
"clearly divided into four estates: the priests (the magi), the warriors, the officials and the landowners; the latter estate also included the artisans, merchants and physicians" (Diakonoff, 1999, p. 73).
It was under the Sasanians that "Iranian law was codified; it constituted an elaborate and well-reasoned system" (Diakonoff, 1999, p. 73). This takes place in about the third century; it
lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, including one in 1909-1911; another in 1953; and finally one in 1979, when the secular
nationalists, who had been cooperating with the United States for years were suddenly tossed out of power (Beeman, 2005). Irans new leaders "adopted an independent set of international relations goals,
summed up in the phrase "neither East nor West. They expressed the desire to establish a true Islamic Republic based on religious law" (Beeman, 2005, p. 19). This is
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