paradigm shift from Punishment to Regulation in the Light of Responsive Regulation Theory

framing a comprehensive strategy for controlling criminal phenomenons which can provide legislators's goals of intervention is the most important concern of criminal policymakers. criminal justice have this opportunity to face individual people in a society and because of this it can have an important role in implementing and distributing the social justice and policies. in distributing social justice, unequal share of citizens from social benefits should be covered by affirmative actions. one of the means that states could use as these affirmative actions are interventions and responses to the misconducts of citizens. therefore criminal policies should be designed not only to regulate social relations but to take an effective steps toward a better distribution of social justice. Responsive Regulation is an idea which is based upon procedural Justice and hierarchical Structure that by using its unique mechanisms implement three reactionary theories of restorative justice, Deterrence and incapacitation theory in a pyramid of interventions according to a philosophy based on believing in punishment as last resort, interaction between regulator and criminal phenomenon's shareholders, flexibility of responses and considering the underlying causes of crime and considers every crime as a problem that should be solved by the best possible response.