[...]the article concludes that the current pandemic exerts varying impacts on criminality, corroborating the assumption that 'disease' alongside 'crime' endangers human health on the whole. [...]the main question is how humans can maintain their physical health upon exposure to the dangers of COVID, and look after their mental health from the risks and the unpleasant effects of criminality, particularly fear of crime and moral panic? [...]as will be seen later, the relationships between the pandemic and economic crimes as well as domestic violence in the context of crime typology in criminology constitute the sub-titles of this part. 1. According to a binary conceptualization, the term 'deviance' is used for behaviors, practices, attitudes, beliefs, or styles that tend to deviate from the cultural elements of a given society, such as its norms, standards, and ethics (McLaughlin & Muncie, 2019, p. 269). According to Britannica (1998), exhibitionism is defined as "derivation of sexual gratification through compulsive display of one's genitals", and describes it as "deviant behavior when it takes place outside the context of intimate sexual relations".
A Criminological Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Comparative Perspective Based on Iran's and the World's Data