The contexts of penal instrumentalism

Penal instrumentalism means resorting to criminal matters as the most accessible instrument to achieve any goals and goods for a quick and easy resolution and relief of a problem, by ignoring the evident legal and moral principles. In this essay for answering to what contexts reveal the penal instrumentalism in the criminal policy systems, we numerate two set of factors: first, theoretical contexts involving theoretical foundations which, if will be accepted by criminal policy makers, they will contextualize instrumental usage of criminal matters. Political foundations, criminal policy models, and moral bases are embedded in this category. Second, the practical contexts mean those facts and circumstances which if exist, can actuate criminal policy makers, aside from their theoretical foundations, to penal instrumentalism. Domination of instrumental rationality and monologue in the public sphere, power and authority relations, and finally individual characteristics of criminal policy agents are embedded in this category.