From Security-Oriented to Dignity-Oriented Criminal Justice: Causes and Practices
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The most significant mission of criminal justice is to establish order and security through counteracting behaviors which are regarded as crime within the framework of criminal law. However, different criminal components have been measured in an attempt to realize the objective defined based on this mission. In this respect, politically-driven criminal policies have resulted in a perspective that views crime fighting as a war and neglects criminological achievements in dealing with offenders; this has led to a security-oriented approach in formulating criminal policies which ignores those approaches that are based on human right in criminal justice. On the other hand, there is another approach, based on reproduction of human dignity that asserts criminal conducts should be viewed in accordance with ideas conceptualized within the society, and goes beyond any security-oriented ideology to manage crime-driven risks in favor of human rights and freedom within a conceptually formulated framework. Nevertheless, the requirement for organized reactions to counter modern criminal phenomena led to a form of criminal law that sought modern differential responses to crime by finding particular causes and by emphasizing specific practices in targeting different types of crimes.
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