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Via 1789 French Revolution, it was thought that religion which is dismissed from social life would disappear in modern society over time. However, the question of what will replace this power which has provided the integration of societies for thousand years has pursued its existence as a problematic. Sociology as a new science born in a disrupted social order after the Revolution, will try to produce the knowledge not only of how the society is possible but also of how will the social order be organized. The power that will ensure reconstruction of a social order is actually the “ substitute religion” invented by this new science. The purpose of this paper is to present how the leading theorists of the Enlightenment such as C. Montesquieu, J. J. Rousseau and Saint -Simon and the French sociology including the perspective of E. Durkheim after approximately a century when A. Comte founded sociology at the beginning of the 19th century have generated this “substitute religion”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper puts emphasis on the religion's approach to crime in general and in particular, how religion Islam deals with crime and theoretical and social mechanisms' function on prevention of crime. Introductory information is given about nature of crime, Islam's definiton of crime, relationship between crime and social psychology. How worships function in terms of preventing crime is explained. The information about societies' social structure directed to prevent crime is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]