Role of Executive Branch in Social Crime Prevention

Prevention of crime has always been one of the main concerns of the legal system and in order to achieve this goal, different theories have been proposed. One divides crime prevention to two types of social crime prevention and developmental crime prevention, both aim at personality and social structural reforms. According to the Article 156 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the prevention of crime is one of the tasks of the Judiciary. However, by virtue of the tasks foreseen for the Executive branch, this branch has many functions related to crime prevention. Therefore, the Executive functions to improve living standards and social welfare of the nation. The role of Executive branch in crime prevention can be clearly seen in Article 3 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran which states that providing education is one of the responsibilities of this branch.