Nowadays in criminal issues, some alternative punishments are suggested for imprisonement and even in some cases, they are enforced including fining, adjournment, parole, social deprivation and so on and so forth. One of the alternative institutions for imprisonment is adjournment. Adjournment is an institution seeks to individualize the punishment and reduce prisoners number and has entered into Iranian criminal response system following the strategies that have been adopted by western countries, particularly France. The aforementioned institution was included in the Articles of 40 to 45 of Islamic Criminal Code enacted in 2013 under the fifth chapter of second part. According to these Articles, deferment has been ordered in two simple and care-based forms which are decided in view of the degree of convict’s obedience to the sentences issued by the court and based on the reports of social workers and considering the general conditions of the convict.
