Human Dignity; a Modern Strategy of the Criminal Policy

Undoubtedly, criminal policy takes shape as a strategy for confrontation the crimes under the various social changes. Some of these changes occur on the basis of changing the foundations of social order. In pre-modern world, one of the significant foundations of social order was the observation of collective similarities and one of the most important obligations of governments was keeping these similarities, pure of moral facts, by criminalizing the acts that may be considered violating. But today by paying attention to modern philosophical debates and the importance of man among these debates, its would be considerable to observe human dignity as one of the other important foundations of social order and, consequently, it is possible to refer to it as a modern strategy in this regard.