Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Criminal policy, meaning the set of strategies and measures taken in a society against crime and perversion, is strongly linked to the fundamental attitudes that govern the thought of its founders in categories such as freedom, power and equality of human beings. The nature of the strategy of social order and security and its methods is shaped in terms of the importance of related categories and different models of criminal policy are created. Some have mistakenly argued for the low status of freedom in Islamic criminal policy and have introduced it as absolute totalitarian. Drawing on descriptive-analytical method, this article seeks to explain the position of freedom in Islamic criminal policy in the light of fundamental principles such as worship, perfection and human dignity. The results show that in the philosophy of liberalism, human perfection depends on the protection of interests at the individual level and human dignity depends on his freedom even if it is contrary to nature and reason. However, in Islamic criminal policy, the dimension of human individuality is never destroyed in his social dimension, and justice, security and freedom are the necessary elements to achieve human dignity. They are ways to achieve perfection through the servitude and worship of God Almighty.