Territory of tolerance criminal policy

Tolerance criminal policy, which is the opposite of aggressive criminal policy or maximum criminal intervention, means increasing tolerance for anti-social behaviors and not to unnecessarily criminalize them due to the inefficiency, uselessness and cost of criminal proceedings. In this sense, those in charge of criminal policy pursue a strategy of regression in criminal law and increase their tolerance for social deviations and seek to control anti-social phenomena through non-criminal means. In order to determine which behaviors are worthy of criminal prosecution and which behaviors are within the territory of tolerance criminal policy, a practical definition of crime should be provided in which specific characteristics are defined as criteria for criminalization. Harmfulness of behavior, blameability, inefficiency of non-criminal means against that behavior and efficiency of criminal response are the criteria that define the boundary of intervention and tolerance. In this article, these criteria as well as non-criminal and tolerant methods of dealing with anti-social behaviors are analyzed in detail.