This course will explore the concept of criminal policy as a force for penal justice and action and as the inspiration for service and the application of knowledge to positive social change. Organizing or disorganizing the chaos of crime as social institute and individual deviation. What it means to judge the behavior but punish individual? International, supranational and local aspects, as well as psychological, religious, and social perspectives of criminalization, penalization and decriminalization will be discussed, drawing on the expertise of people from a variety of disciplines.