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Vol.5 / Issue 30 / June 2015 International Bimonthly ISSN: 0976 – 0997
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Legal and Social Protections from Elderly Victimizations
Seyed Adel Heydari
1
and Hesam Abbasi
2
*
1
PhD student in Law, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm Branch, I.R.Iran.
2
Young Researchers and Elite Club, Sirjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sirjan, I.R.Iran.
Received: 12 Mar 2015 Revised: 24 Apr 2015 Accepted: 29 May 2015
*Address for correspondence
Hesam Abbasi
Young Researchers and Elite Club,
Sirjan Branch, Islamic Azad University,
Sirjan, I.R.Iran.
E-mail: Hesam1986@gmail.com.
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Victimization has root in multiple factors such as poor physical and psychological health, emotional
disorders, lack of social status and lack of environmental care, but some people’s offence is because of
their physical, psychological and the other physiological specifications more than others. Aging means
losing mental and physical powers that occurs over time and based on living conditions and culture it
differs in different countries. The elderly always are group of people vulnerable of being the targeted to
crime. Unfortunately, the existing laws have very limited support. Also, there are behaviors which from
perspective of government’s criminal laws may not be considered crime but affects the elderly and their
environment strongly. As a result, addressing them besides the acts and omission acts that controvert
criminal laws of the governments, in order to understanding the causes of the elderly abuse, preventing it
and reducing that damages influencing the elderly seems essential. So, according to extensive
development in criminal laws and differentiation policy view of legislators to this area of study the
existence of corporate policy in this area is required. But unfortunately there is no position for corporate
policy in Iranian society and less attention is paid to it.
Key words: Asthenic Persons, Victimization, Elder, Protection, Etiology
INTRODUCTION
Victimization is often caused by several factors such as poor physical mental and emotional imbalances, lack of social
status and lack of environmental care, the level of victimization of some people is more than the others because of
special characteristics. Misbehavior with the elderly is the consequence of increase in the number of the olds in
RESEARCH ARTICLE
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