جرم‌زدايي از جرايم ولگردي و تكدي‌گري

The Decriminalization of Vagrancy and Begging Crimes (Offenses)

درباره لزوم جرم‌زدايي از رفتارهاي مجرمانه بدون بزه‌ديده مستقيم كه با ارزش‌ها و هنجارهاي اساسيِ جامعه مخالفت اساسي ندارند، ولي قانون‌گذار آن‌ها را جرم‌انگاري كرده، بسيار بحث شده است. مقاله پيش رو، به بررسي دو فقره از اين انحراف‌ها كه در ماده 712 قانون مجازات اسلامي (تعزيرات)، تحت عناوين ولگردي و تكدي‌گري جرم‌انگاري شده‌اند، مي‌پردازد و درباره منافع و موانع جرم‌زدايي از رفتارهاي مذكور بحث مي‌كند و در نهايت، جرم‌زدايي از آن‌ها را موجه مي‌داند.

There are a lot of debates over the necessity of decriminalization of crime conducts (behaviors) which have no direct crime victims (crimes without victims or victimless crimes) and no serious violations of the society values and norms while they are considered crimes by the legislator. This research has studied two cases of these deviances which are crimes according to article 712 of the Islamic penal code under topics of begging and vagrancy transforms into crimes (the Article justifies to criminalize them) and provided possibility or impossibility of criminalization of these conducts and after mentioning the proving reasons and opposing ones of decriminalization of these conducts, the result shows that the balance of decriminalization is preferable provisionally. Key words: Decriminalization, Criminalization, Begging, Vagrancy, Deviance.