Racial discrimination from the perspective of Criminal law (Comparative analytical Study)

Abstract

Acts of discrimination and inequality between individuals and groups have become crimes punishable by law, because they are an act of equality and the principle of human beings, and, like other crimes, have their own legal structure, namely the material element of known elements, while the other side of The structure of that crime is its moral pillar, which is the general intent of the offender's knowledge and will to do criminal conduct and acceptance of the criminal outcome, in addition to the special focus on the intention to introduce the characteristics of the victim, such as religious, ethnic or political affiliation and other characteristics characteristic of the groups Diverse humanity in societies.
States that have criminalized such acts (racial discrimination) have taken the first two directions: criminalizing such acts in general penal laws, as in the case of the Moroccan Penal Code and the Penal Code of Algeria; and the second: dealing with special laws to reduce racial hatred and discrimination , and this is what the United Arab Emirates has taken to criminalize acts of racial discrimination by a special law.