Gendered Justice: Inequalities in the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in Iran

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Using the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) in Iran as an illustration, this article explores the continued resistance against girls’ rights in some Islamic countries. The gendered construction of childhood in Iran has resulted in a differential MACR, which for boys is notably higher than that recommended by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, yet for girls is unacceptably low. While breaches of girls’ rights in other areas are defended on the grounds of paternalistic concerns, it is argued that the MACR is a religious-politico decision that, in Iran, upholds the rights of boys but denies the rights of girls, propagating their wider subjugation.

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Staines, J., Aghtaie, N., & Roy, J. (2022). Gendered Justice: Inequalities in the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in Iran. Youth Justice, 22(3), 290–303. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254211022854

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