Causes of the Emergence of Pragmatism in the Criminal Policy of Economic Crimes

The symbolic emphasis on the issue of combating economic crimes and the disregard for expert and scientific theories have caused pragmatism to penetrate the field of economic crime criminal policy. In such a way gaining political prestige by government officials in the eyes of public opinion is considered as one of their main goals in the fight against economic crimes. Pragmatic policies that are opposed to rationalism and prudent and scientific approaches, by emphasizing the will of the people and the current needs of society, adopt cross-cutting solutions to issues and problems. An examination of Iran's criminal policy on economic crimes shows that pragmatism has infiltrated the field of economic crimes for various reasons, including the media coverage of economic crimes, the politicization of reactions to these crimes, the lack of public awareness and the state economy, and pragmatism. Findings indicate that pragmatism in the field of substantive policy on combating economic crimes in criminalization is based on events, determining the guarantee of criminal execution according to the requirements of society, legislation by an institution other than the legislature and the basis of Government security is manifested in criminality. The research method in this research is descriptive-analytical and in collecting its data, in addition to analyzing the rules and regulations, the discourse of criminal policymakers has been examined.