THE POSITION OF DECRIMINALIZATION IN THE CRIMINAL POLICY OF ISLAM AND THE CRIMINAL POLICY OF AFGHANISTAN

The bulk of criminal cases and the increase in the criminal and prison population is a fundamental and necessary issue in the criminal justice system, and it has negative social, political, economic, etc. consequences. In order to solve this problem, lawyers have suggested changing the path of less important cases from the path of criminal justice. This research was done with analytical-descriptive method and using library tools. The purpose of this article is to answer the question of what is the position of decriminalization in the criminal policy of Islam and Afghanistan. By following the jurisprudence and criminal law sources of Afghanistan, the conclusion is reached that in the criminal policy of Islam, in the stage of discovery, prosecution of the crime, sentencing and its execution, due to the legislator's importance to the principle of innocence and the emphasis on the forgiveness of the plaintiff, ignoring petty crime, rehabilitation, judgment, etc. have a special place. In the criminal law of Afghanistan, factors such as the passage of time, conditional release, suspension of the execution of the sentence, etc. prevent the criminal case from entering the formal investigation stage and even cause it to leave the judicial process. These mechanisms show the importance of decriminalization in Afghanistan's criminal policy.