The Relations between the Judiciary and the Executive Power in the Field of the Criminal Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

A country's criminal policy is a set of measures and methods used by the community body, including the government, in its general sense, to respond to the phenomenon of crime problem. Most of these measures are implemented and defined through the functions and relationships between the three powers, institutions and organizations of the country's political system. Both the judiciary and the executive power play a significant role in criminal policy and in dealing with the phenomenon of crime problem at the legislative, judicial and executive levels. According to the order of independence of the powers in the Islamic Republic of Iran, each power has an independent function in dealing with the phenomenon of crime problem, but this independence cannot be considered without observing the relations between them because all these powers work for establishing the principals and achieving the goals of their own country. Using a descriptive-analytical approach, this article examines the question about the kind of relations between the executive and judicial powers in the realm of implementing legislative, executive and judicial criminal policy that makes the two powers, while independent, seem to have two types of relations, i.e. interactive and controlling in the realm of legislative and judicial criminal policy.