رشد جزايي

PENAL MATURATION

Penal maturation implies reaching an age in which an adult person can distinguish in a concievablly manner between good and evil practices and perciere religious legitimate orders and injoction. This has not been well considered in the penal acts in our country. In our legal and religious jurisprudence books civil maturation typically means a discerning powr to be used for distinguishing between interest, loss and thrift, which are discussed and noted by religious jurisprudence and civil ones. In discussions associated with penal liability in penal acts after the victory of islamic revolution, the cviterion of year of concern penal liability and that of pack of mania have been determined, and as regards year of concern it was ordered that it should be 9 full hegira years for girls and 14 ful hegira years for boys persuant to religious verdicts of Shiite religious jurisprudents. In this article, i have dealt with the need to segregate the maturation phenomenon resulted from penal maturation in addition to considering the issue concerned to maturation and criticizing and analysing the existing views and opinions on this regard, elucidating how a penal maturation is and citing how different it is from civil maturation, i also querried the imposition of penal responsibility on children and teenagers below 15 years of age and dealt with the need to a chiere the penal maturation and that of determining a specified age as to be a dominant and typical circumstantial evidence to justify the notion of a penal maturation.