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Ali Hossein Najafi Abrand Abadi Associate Professor, Shahid Beheshti University Mohammad Jafar Habibzadeh Associate Professor, Department of Law, Tarbiat Modares University Abulfat'h Khaleghi Ph.D. Student of Criminal Law, Tarbiat Modares University The imprisonment (custodial sentences) is the most common and expensive sanction in the criminal law, which has enjoyed hardly any success on the treatment of the offenders due to the complexity of the prison administration. Reform in the prison administration and search for an appropriate alternatives for it, have long attracted the attention of the penologists, it has recently intensified with the appearance of community punishment theory. This theory was designed with the aim of sentencing without unnecessary intervention in the social and emotional relationships of offenders together with protection of public security and welfare. Home detention as a sample of community punishment has reduced incarceration rates and restricted nonviolent criminals and is more compatible with the humanitarian principles.