Nowadays, most governments have a security-oriented approach dealing with some important crimes, especially crimes against national security and organized crimes. This approach is mainly manifested in the form of legislative and judicial criminal policy, and governments may use various tools to implement such policies. One of the tools that governments have always used to justify or implement security-oriented criminal policies is the mass media. In some cases, the mass media are effective in supporting government policies and in some cases, regardless of them, in realizing security-oriented criminal policy. Given the importance of the role of the media in this context, this article, using a descriptive-analytical method and based on library studies, has examined the role and position of the mass media in realizing security-oriented legislative and judicial criminal policy in two independent sections. This article findings show the mass media can be influential in each of the stages of drafting and approving laws with a security-oriented approach, and thus support the legislative criminal policy. In addition, in some cases, by mediating important crimes and reflecting the public's views on these crimes, the mass media can be influential in the three stages of preliminary investigation, hearing and issuing a verdict and execution of punishment, and play a role in supporting the security-oriented criminal judicial policy. All of these cases have direct or indirect effects on the rights of individuals.