The Difference Between “Delinquency” (Criminality) and “Being Victim” in the Crime of Rape (Study of Judicial Precedent of the City of Mashhad)

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1 Associate professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Azad University of Mashhad

2 PhD student in criminal law and criminology, Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

3 Assistant professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Azad University of Mashhad

4 Assistant professor, Department of Law, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences.

Abstract

   The theory of “noble and non-noble women” (chaste and non-chaste) analyzes the difference between delinquency and being victim as a feminist theory in the criminology of criminal courts in sexual offences. If women who are victims of rape, according to this theory, fail to prove rape in court and they will lose their state of being victim, if they’ve been labeled as immodest women, and will be punished in the state of the criminal title of “sexual intercourse” by becoming criminals. Therefore, this research has put its main issue and goal on evaluating the place of the theory of noble and non-noble women in the judicial precedent of the Criminal Court One of Razavi Khorasan province by raising the question of whether the criminalization of the victim in the offence of rape is accepted in the judicial procedure or not? This article, in this way, is going to investigate the approach of judicial precedent to the criminalization of the victim in the crime of sexual offences by using qualitative research methods such as the analysis of judicial opinions and conducting excellent interviews with judges. This research indicates that Razavi Khorasan province’s precedent (practice) Criminal Court One and the branches of the Supreme Court of the country is that they do not engage (interfere) for plaintiff in the assumption of the victim's inability to prove rape as the state of the accusatory title of “sexual intercourse”, because on the one hand, the conditions stipulated in Article 102 of the Criminal Procedure Code does not exist in this case, and on the other hand, failure to prove rape does not mean desire. The existence of a previous friendship also does not justify the victim's punishment. According to the analysis of the existing cases, the judges of Khorasan-Razavi’s Criminal Court One and the court branches, by adopting a humane approach and avoiding extreme feminist reactions, only pay attention to the victim blaming in order to reduce the death penalty.

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