Relationship between Victims Ram Theory and Penal Populism and its Impact on Iran's Penal Policy

One of the most important tasks of governments is to provide citizens with security. ‎In this regard, since the government and the penal justice authorities do not carry out ‎their real duties in dealing with the roots of crimes, projection and creating a mental ‎form and a stereotypical picture of crime, thus suggest people that the reasons for ‎their deprivation of security is the convictions with the criminal offenders who ‎threaten public safety with commission of crimes; and therefore measures should be ‎taken to punish them strictly and to exclude them from the constitution of the ‎community. Adopting such reactive measures that lack any scientific and expert ‎basis in identifying the causes of crime, poses a serious obstacle and challenge, and ‎provide grounds for the creation of penal populism, antipathy discourse and victim ‎ram. This article aims to investigate this issue by emphasizing Iran's penal policy in ‎the form of three speeches.‎