Crime Prevention in Criminological Theories and the Scope of Its Restrictions

t is clear that society protects itself from crimes by preventing and repression. If crime prevention in its criminological sence (namely be out of penal system) is more influential, the necessity to penalize is less. In spite of this unambiguous benefit, the use of prevention in some criminological theories has been doubted. Similarly the adequacy of it, practically, faced to some limitations in different realms. Kinds of crimes, types of delinquents, methods by which enforce prevention, costs of applying various preventing actions and rights and individual liberties are some restrictions that posed and observed separately in this paper.