Document Type : Research Article / Original Article

Authors

• hafiz foladi ¹
• alireza mohseni ²

¹ پژوهشکده حوزه و دانشگاه

² دانشگاه تهران

Abstract

To maintain social solidarity and order, taking measures for the punishment of norm violators، subsequent to the employment of preventative and corrective measures, is inescapable. Reviewing the sayings and preaches of Imam Ali (pbuh) for eliciting the useful strategies in this regard and modeling it in a religious society seems to be a research imperative. In the present article, those statements in Nahjul Balagha that concern the issue of punishment have been extracted and codified by qualitative method, using grounded theory technique. Then the data have been categorized under certain main themes, and ultimately, the category of “punishment of criminals” has been selected and analyzed. In this line, solutions like bodily punishment, mental and psychological punishment, economic punishment, punishment in form of disqualification from one’s position, and even deprivation of life regarding some crimes, have been elicited considering the circumstances and the conditions in applying each punishment.

Keywords

• Ali (pbuh)
• Punishment
• grounded theory methodology
• social control
• deviance

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