Syria plays a dominant role in the wider Mediterranean area and the Middle East, and not rarely it becomes the focal point of the geopolitical atlas, mainly because it has been stigmatized as a country with democratic deficit, as a shelter for global terrorism, and as a factor of instability in the Middle East, perceptions which are chiefly formed by think tanks and the mass media of the USA. For this country and its society there are few writings and even fewer criminological studies based on findings of field research. The present work is an introductory note which will hopefully awaken the interest of scientists, in order to study at length this known but at the same time unknown society. (Published Abstract)