The legal nature of the multiplicity of offenders: a comparative study between UAE law and Egyptian law.

Law enforcement authorities – whether they are enforcement, investigation or prosecution authorities – often face types of crimes that are not limited to one individual, but also multiple perpetrators who have different roles, with different and varying nature and size of each role. On this basis, the concept of multiple offenders has emerged in criminal jurisprudence, which expresses the multiplicity of individuals who had a role in the commission of the crime, in application of the principle of division of labor on the crime project. In fact, the concept of multiple offenders is similar and overlapping with many other concepts in criminal jurisprudence, such as contribution to crime (or criminal contribution), complicity in crime (or criminal complicity), collective crime and assistance to crime, incitement to crime, and agreement of the perpetrators (or criminal agreement). and other concepts, each with its own legal nature. Proceeding from the fact that the legislator is not originally obliged to define the various legal terms, except in cases of legislative necessity, as they are terms that appear within the scope of legal texts that are applied immediately or in the future without regard to the defining origin, since the definition of the term - especially criminal terms - between the two books of law, may place restrictions on the court in the event of adjudication of the case before or the judicial judgment loses the required flexibility, we do not find the federal legislator in the United Arab Emirates. He defined the multiplicity of offenders, but this concept was expressed in the provisions of the UAE Criminal and Penal Code promulgated by Federal Decree-Law (31) of 2021.