Transfer of Crime Control Policy; Is It Voluntary or Coercive?

Transferring crime control policy is defined as a process in which knowledge and information about ideas, ideologies, judicial practices, and crime control policies are transported from one jurisdiction to another. This term, which has been recently considered by some criminologists in the early twenty-first century, came from ‘policy transfer’ literature in comparative political science. Today, the study of the transfer process has become critical, since the transfer of policies between countries and the importation of ideas from abroad are on the rise. The legal system of Iran has used transitional crime control policies in its criminal justice system to resolve legal and criminal problems, so it needs to be familiar with this important and influential matter. It can be very effective in ensuring the success of transitional policies. It can be very effective in ensuring the success of imported Iranian crime control policies. This article has four sections. In the first section, the conceptual framework of policy transfer is explained. Then, the types of transfer (voluntary transfer and coercive transfer) will be reviewed in the field of criminal policy with concrete examples. And finally, in the last section, we illustrate a wide range of transmission, involving both voluntary and coercive elements of transfer.