POLICY TO REDUCE PENAL PUNISHMENT

Abstract

The criminal policy is what determines the direction of the legislator in the criminal field, and the authorities in charge of implementing and implementing the legislation, and various punitive tools have been used as a response to the commission of the crime, which resulted in the emergence of a crisis at the level of criminal justice. Based on the foregoing, calls have increased towards expansion in the reduction of punishment, which took several forms, the most important of which is a shift away from criminal punishment, and the policy of limiting punishment is one of the new methods used by criminal legislation to reduce the huge number of cases before the criminal judiciary. More effective means to confront crime and its impact within society. . Where contemporary criminal policy aims to consider criminal law as the last means, but it is not the only means to provide the necessary protection for social interests in society. Where it aims to consecrate the idea of ​​not resorting to a criminal solution to confront unlawful behavior unless it is proven that other legal solutions are deficient. The policy of limiting punishment is one of the contemporary methods that have imposed themselves in criminal policy for the purpose of protecting social interests and values ​​in new ways and methods after the criminal system failed to protect these interests. The jurisprudence differed in defining the concept and scope of the policy of limiting punishment, which necessitates defining this policy and distinguishing it from other penal policies