Theorization in the realm of criminal policy is badly
needed by the country. Lack of coherent, indigenous
pattern of managing activities dealing with offence and
deviation causes lack of harmony of governmental
institutions invested with administrative affairs, and this
will lead to nothing but drop of standards of criminal
justice in Iran. Although approaching criminal justice in
Iran is primarily and essentially influenced by Islamic
teachings, the expression “Islamic criminal policy”is
facing several challenges in juristic-legal literature of our
country: problems which must be detected and solved,
otherwiseone cannot claim preparation for moving in the
way of planning “Islamic-Iranian theory of criminal
policy.” Study of researches in the realm of Islamic
criminal policy indicates existence of some prevailing
discourses in this connection; as some epistemological
discourses – and not specifically in the realm of criminal
policy - can also be detected which indirectly influence
essentials, structure, manifestations, and evolution of
Islamic criminal policy.
Using the method of discourse analysis and reviewing
perspectives in the realm of Islamic criminal policy in the
research literature of the country as well as recent legal
evolutions, the present essay explains detriments of
existing perspectives in the juristic-legal literature in the
category of Islamic criminal policy – with an emphasis 
upon philosophy of jurisprudence – and describes what
relation can be established between policies governing
criminal jurisprudence and Islamic criminal policy. The
ultimate goal of this essay is to draw general
characteristics of a reading of Islamic criminal policy
which, in turn, is a part of a wider theory named “the
Islamic-Iranian pattern of criminal policy.”