Dangerous Offenders Supervision; Challenges and Solutions .............

One of the issues in the domain of law and criminology texts which has received special attention in the recent years is offenders supervision, especially dangerous offenders; supervisions which aim at protecting society against the severe crimes committed by dangerous offenders. These sort of supervisions might lead to some law and criminology challenges. The present researches have rarely paid attention to the challenges of offenders supervision or merely referred to the concerns and problems of one of the dimensions of supervision- by relying on foreign reference. Therefore, the present article seeks to express the most prominent challenges on offender supervision and provides working procedure to remove them by aiming at taking benefit from statutes in Iran and relying on the findings of a comparative study. Making the criminal justice practitioners aware of the findings and most important practical challenges of supervision programs in other countries can either lead to effective enactment of laws and designing a supervision program on dangerous offenders or lead to reform the relevant laws. The achievement of the present research is that the issue of supervising dangerous offenders is facing with many failures and problems from different dimensions such as: conceptually; due to the lack of a clear border between this concept and similar ones; on the definition; due to the lack of a legal criterion and evidence for crime and dangerous offender; and also from the viewpoint of legality and execution. Hence, along with an expression of the concept of supervision, suggesting the solutions for legal definition of crime and dangerous offenders and indication of supervisory tactics i.e. Register, Community Notification in order to improvement officers’ role on dangerous offenders control is truly necessary