Securitization of Criminology: Approaches and Its Effects on Criminal law

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Today, with the emergence of new forms of criminality, especially terrorism and organized crimes, the governments in an effort for providing security and fighting crime, go forward so far as the human rights standards became the extra formalities in their view, as impeding fast implementation of criminal justice and providing security. Meanwhile, with the increasing of criminality, the criminology recognized providing order and security – returning to the crime-oriented period of criminal law- as the solution for crime and adopts security-based approach. In the security criminology approach, it is tried to banish the chronic criminals through criminal mechanisms and dangerous persons through situational prevention criminology by the use of a differentiated strategy. In the light of such space, the dialogue of imagined defendants and criminals as enemy has affected penal policy of different countries. So that, in this approach, many of criminal regulations was based on security by taking impression of the new criminology thoughts. In other words, some of the human rights of defendant are ignored under the pretext of providing security. In this paper; through explanation of security criminology, we analyze the strategies and effects of this approach on criminal law

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