Security-Oriented Criminal Policy

In responding to criminal phenomena, the criminal policy takes principles and methods by which its general prospects would be revealed. Nowadays, we face with increasing rate of crimes which violate security and welfare of the citizens leading to change criminal policy’s strategy from offender-based towards crimebased in order to provide the security in a way that fundamental principles of criminalization, criminal liability, and sentencing are changed and bears a differential interpretations. Supposing the offenders as an enemy, it creates a hostile-oriented criminal law and due to the globalization of crimes and gross violation of national and international security, it seeks uttermost security. Stressing on extreme slogans of providing security for citizens, it seems that criminal policy has encountered a kind of crisis in the context of humanitarian law and failed to achieve its goals. Whether the security-oriented criminal policy can reach the goals in spite of the existence of serious challenges or not is a matter of concern in this article.