Zakat and Its Preventive Role in Reducing Crimes

Abstract

Sociologists have confirmed through their research that poverty, material poverty and economic conditions play a major role in the rise in crime in society, and criminologists and punishment specialists have emphasized that punishment alone is not sufficient to deter the perpetrators and rebuked those who beg to commit the crime, and they took it upon themselves to research For preventive and precautionary solutions to reduce these crimes, the zakat system, which is one of the pillars of Islam if it is applied as God Almighty has commanded, may be one of these preventive methods.