The role of the victim in criminal litigation (a comparative study between the Egyptian and UAE laws)

The history of the crime began to concern the victim of the crime (the victim), as the person who bore the damage of the crime, who had the right to demand the execution of the punishment of the offender, while the criminal was seen as the person who harmed society; However, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the world witnessed many economic and social changes. The security that was the result of phenomena caused by world wars and natural disasters that greatly affected society, especially its vulnerable groups. This led to an increase in crimes in societies, and from here attention began to be focused on the perpetrator of the crime, in an effort to understand his personality, and the factors that made him commit such crimes, in addition to paying attention to the care of the accused, Some of these rights have become constitutional rights and have become impregnable rules that no authority can infringe, such as the rule of "the accused is innocent until proven guilty" and the rule of "non-retroactivity of criminal law".