The Role of Criminal Law in Establishing Economic Order and Security

Abstract

Stability, economic order and security are the values of society. The criminal law is a place for highlighting community values and is considered as the most important and main criminal policy tools. Chaos and economic instability leads to investment escape and loss of capital resources of the country. In order to preserve resources and develop economic security of the country and to preserve economic values, government resorts to criminal law in order to create a safe, healthy, and competitive environment for economic activists as well as to prepare the ground for growth and development in various areas. On the other hand, the sheer resort to criminal law and coercive measures might have various functions such as repression, supportive function, and descriptive function, and if used in time and purposive, regarding oppressive and frightening role of criminal law, it can meet some needs of government in the domain of order and security. However, it is a fact that it cannot be a reliable support for the government in the domain of economic order and security, or it might impose huge costs on the economy and society. Therefore, it is essential that in addition to the criminal policy tools, the government must identify other effective non-criminal processes for regulating the economy and national resources through which it can follow the preparation for order, security and economic stability. In the present study, it has been attempted to study two samples of the most important and effective economic factors (Petrol and currency) in addition to determine the role of criminal law in non-criminal state order and economic security processes and policies. The present study is applied regarding its purpose and it is survey– descriptive regarding data collection. The population is changes in gasoline consumption and the foreign exchange market in the country that were selected as the sample size by appropriate stratified sampling, in a certain period of time.  The data was collected from theoretical studies, library and field studies, interviews and taking notes that all of them were studied and analyzed. The findings suggest non-criminal processes have an undeniable role in restoring order and economic development in addition to the functions of the criminal