Scrutiny on the Crime Prevention Strategies from the Perspective of Nahj al-Balagha

Nowadays, in dealing with crime a policy is being credited that accounts the aspects of preventive features beside penalization, aiming at crime prevention. A scrutiny in Imam Ali’s holy order, which takes the advantage of firm religious beliefs of Islam, and the positioning of such a sinless Imam at the top of this system, indicates that the taken strategies in this field are of unique nature. In some cases, His Excellency has warned, advised, and acted upon, and in other circumstances, he has reprimanded and decisively punished such criminals. In this research, the attempt has been made by using the method of content analysis to analyze the full text of Nahj al-Balagha in order to extract the cultural, political, and economic statements of Imam Ali's (AS) thoughts regarding crime prevention. Afterwards, by attaining these from the perspective of Nahj al-Balagha, the non-penal preventive strategies such as social and situational preventions along with penal prevention strategies including severity, certainty, speed and method of punishment in the field of criminal policy has been investigated.