The legal structure of hate crimes in comparative law.

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Law – Mansoura University

Abstract

Crime is one of the ancient phenomena, which existed with the existence of man, and it is recognized that any crime, whatever its type, gravity, and gravity, must have a motive that pushed the offender to commit it. Motivation is defined as the internal force that drives behavior and directs it towards a specific goal, as defined by some specialists as a latent physiological and psychological energy or hidden or invisible, or internal readiness that causes a state of tension, working to provoke behavior and direct it towards achieving certain goals. Although the motive and related concepts are topics of psychology, it has proven its importance and its link to criminal law, as the motive is the engine of behavior, and crime is pure behavior, but criminal behavior and punishable by a criminal penalty, however, most penal legislation did not recognize the motive as an element of the crime or as an element in it, but limited its role to punishment, aggravating or mitigating, within the narrowest limits.

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