The governmental response to crime and deviation, weakening the principle of lawfulness, the supremacy of the executive branch over other powers, criminal inflation, zero tolerance, etc. are among the most important features of Authoritarian criminal policy model. Due to its perfection in criminal policy, Islam also has some rules and principles which in some respects have a significant adaptation to the authoritarian model, including the principles set forth above achievable in the model of the criminal policy of Islam. However, it must be said that the criminal policy of Islam differs in different essential aspects from the authoritarian model. Including the fact that in Islam there are some principles such as personalization of punishment and the distinction of crime and deviation in deterrence; it eliminates the aspect of its illegality, converts it into a unique principle. Ultimately, the existence of principles such as guiltlessness, obscenity for unstated punishment, and institutions such as repentance, crime-ignorance and pardon has given to the criminal policy of Islam a different character of authoritarianism.
