Non-Criminal Interventions in Supporting Working Children and Adolescents a Case Study: Shogh Zendige Complex in Mashhad

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1 Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Criminology. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 PhD Student in Criminal Law and Criminology. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

10.30497/flj.2025.247498.2125

Abstract

Economic exploitation of children and adolescents is a concept that conflicts with the inherent dignity of this vulnerable group. Therefore, the present article has examined the conditions prevailing over child and adolescent victims through the perspective of the crime of economic exploitation within the geographical scope of Mashhad city. Since child laborers are considered the breadwinners of their families, they do not face family prohibitions against working. However, human resources are considered as the most important assets of a country, and attention to their conditions will ultimately lead to improving the situation of society in the future. Mashhad District 5 Prosecutor's Office (Shogh Zendig Complex) is one of the specialized judicial authorities in Mashhad city that handles the affairs of minors and the disabled. The present study has selected ten cases with the theme of economic exploitation of children and adolescents to explain the procedures of the Shogh Zendig Complex in supporting child victims and examined them using the Brown and Clark content analysis method. The findings from the content analysis method in this study show that the cases raised in the Shogh Zendig Complex have four themes of psychological, medical, and economic support. At the same time, creating a personality and clinical file for working children, holding skill workshops appropriate to the children's psychological challenges, holding counseling sessions, providing educational conditions, providing family livelihoods, introducing the families of working children to the relief committee and welfare organization to receive monthly assistance, providing home employment opportunities for mothers of working children and adolescents, requiring them to study or helping them return to school, identifying the talents of working children to identify their interests, and medical care are among the sub-themes that are carried out under the supervision of judicial authorities in four main areas. Overall, with the measures taken in the Shogh Zendig Complex, it was achieved that support interventions for children and their families have led to a reduction in the number of working children and the control of the economic exploitation of children in Mashhad.

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