Criminological study of crimes against security of state in perspective of criminal sociology

Crimes against the security of the state are crimes that directly intend to harm the security of society or the state and seek to destroy the foundations of sovereignty. The spread of such crimes in recent decades has led to a security-oriented penal policy, and consequently security-oriented criminology has emerged that considers offender dangerous and doesn’t consider any right for him/her. The main issue is that what are the effective factors in the occurrence of these crimes and its preventive measures? The objectives of this study are to explain the various social, cultural and political factors as well as to provide preventive measures. In commission of these crimes, numerous social, cultural and political factors can play role that is necessary to notice them in order to prevention or reducing of these crimes. The most important of these factors are injustice, discrimination, and repressive attitudes and one of the most important ways to prevent such crimes is to ensure the rights and freedoms of individuals and the administration of justice in society. The research method in this article is descriptive and analytical. The present article seeks to study the social etiology and criminal and non-criminal strategies of prevention of crime against security by adapting to criminal sociology, classical and critical criminology theories as well as to school of zemiology and the teachings of restorative justice - with emphasis on Iranian criminal law.