Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Ph.D Student, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tehran Center Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Associate Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tehran Center Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tehran Center Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jccj.2025.425701.1432
Abstract
The suicide of children and adolescents as one of the health problems of the society has become an increasing trend that requires jurisprudence and legal investigation, especially since many of these materials are influenced by other factors in the cyberspace. The purpose of this article is to investigate the assistant in the suicide of children and teenagers from the point of view of jurisprudence and criminal law. The following article is descriptive and analytical and has investigated the subject of reference by using the library method. The results of the research show that the issue of suicide and assisting in it is considered haram and one of the major sins from the point of view of Sharia and they have the punishment of the afterlife. Also, aiding in suicide is a part of aiding and abetting the crime, even though there is no punishment for it as a separate crime. In Iran's criminal law, suicide has never been considered a criminal offense and no punishment has been determined for suicide, initiation of suicide, but inciting suicide as an independent crime is punishable. The incitement must be effective and as a result of the incitement of another commits suicide or commits a crime or begins to commit it. The Islamic Penal Code has prescribed a lighter punishment than the punishment of the master of the crime for the deputy of the crime and on the other hand, the former penal law or special laws of the deputy's punishment have been left to the Sharia and in some cases, the lawmaker of the crime is entitled to the same punishment as determined for The main perpetrator knows.
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