The Model for Making the Criminals Shamed in the Surah Yusuf

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty Member, Department of Islamic Teachings, Islamic Azad University, Khorramabad (hghmyu@gmail.com) Assistant Professor, Department of Law, University of Yazd, Corresponding Author (ghasemi@yazd.ac.ir)

Abstract
Today, restorative justice is one of the main models in the criminal sceinces. Restorative justice, instead of. Compensatory justice, instead of punishment, seeks to compensate for the damages sustained by the victim and to reconstruct the relationship of the criminal with the victim and the local society through informal methods. An important theory in this approach is the theory of “readmitting shaming”. It is based on the distinction made between labeling shame and readmitting shame. Comparing this theory with the surah Yusuf, one can say that the surah makes an exact comparison between the labeling shame against the wife of Aziz of Egypt and its criminal effects and Hadrat Yusuf’s making his brothers shamed. According to this theory, the right way to solve the criminal problems through indirect encountering of his brothers with the effects and consequences of their behavior and nullifying the techniques of justification of the crime leads to their real apologizing and remedial relation among them, the victims, their family, and the local society. The Surah Yusuf not only contains the elements of the above-mentioned theory, but also teaches lessons like “shaming some victims” and “not determining the identity of the criminal and the victim.”

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