Crime Rates and Criminal Justice Policies in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Criminological Issues

The present article focuses on some significant aspects of COVID- 19 outbreak from the perspective of criminology, as a specific discipline in social and criminal sciences. As a criminological enterprise, two main topics are considered in the light of the aim and scope of the present journal in the field of economics and politics from a comparative viewpoint between Iran’s and world’s Data, as appropriate. These topics include the issues of criminal justice policy which encompass the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on criminal policies relating to or arising from crime rates, emphasizing on economic crimes, and in area of criminal justice system, focusing on the prison system and prevention of crime. The article concludes that the current pandemic has serious impacts on crime rates and criminal justice policies based on the assumption that ‘disease’ alongside ‘crime’ endanger physical and mental aspects of human health.