Criminal Perfectionism

Borhani, Mohsen

Document Type : Research Paper

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mohsen borhani

University of tehran

Abstract

Perfectionists contrary to “The idea of Neutralism and Moral pluralism” recognize promotion of a good life as a duty of the governments. The main objective of the criminal perfectionism approach is to invoke the “Principle of Limitation of Freedom” for the evolution of personality, protection of common moral values and advancement of citizens’desires that are subject of criminal law. They believe that, it’s not right to leave alone citizens for their individual desires, because persons are not necessarily the best judge in assessment of right from fault in their life. In this study, it was tried to examine and scrutinize this idea, in criminal law and ethics, on the one hand, and political sovereignty instruments in establishing a perfectionist approach in the society, on the other hand. It’s worthwhile that states drive their perfectionism to the valuable options like establishing educative centers, cultural centers and media training, and also avoid from unnecessary criminal conflicts and insecurity of public area by employing non-coercive tools.

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