Green Crimes and the Preventive Criminal Policy of Civil Society

Attention to environmental worries has been considered as a significant part of human rights studies in other fields of social science studies such as criminology. Regarding the importance of the subject, this article aims to investigate green crimes and preventive criminal policy.

The current research is theoretical and the research method is descriptive-analytical. The data collection is done via the library method and through referring to documents, books, and articles.

In all stages of writing the current study, while respecting the originality of the texts, honesty, and trustworthiness have been observed.

People's awareness and their participation in environmental affairs are important, it seems that informing and raising the level of knowledge, and awareness of the community about environmental issues is in the field of social prevention. Based on this fact, the three main concepts of research; Green criminology, criminal prevention policy, and environmental NGOs were defined and examined. Participatory prevention of environmental crimes and the role of environmental NGOs were explored in the Iranian legal system.

we can rely on the capability of mass media: teaching specialized laws in the field of environmental crimes, formulating programs tailored to different strata of people in terms of culture, economy, science, etc. based on the principle of environmental protection and education on how to cooperate with other institutions involved in the issue and efforts to strengthen the culture of participation in the avoidance of environmental damage and crime.