Factors and Causes of Domestic Crime

Abstract

The topic of domestic crime is one of the important and sensitive topics related to the most important nucleus of society, which is the family, as domestic crime poses a serious threat to human rights in general and the family in particular, especially since the most targeted parties are the weaker individuals in the family, namely women and children. Legal legislations of various types have addressed the phenomenon of domestic crime, and considered hostile acts committed by one family member against another member as criminal acts that expose the perpetrator to criminal accountability. Despite the abundance of legal legislations regarding domestic crime, they came incomplete and need a lot of amendment and development, as crime is a phenomenon that needs to be treated from its roots, by following the descriptive and analytical approach in searching for the causes and factors that helped it to emerge into existence, or avoiding its effects as much as possible by developing the necessary solutions that limit this type of crime, in order to maintain family stability and contribute to building a society that is characterized by harmony, love and tranquility, a righteous society capable of giving. Creativity and building a better future, and the reasons and motives that lead to committing crimes within the family may be multiple and varied, some of which are internal factors, which may be born with the individual and are attached to him and cannot leave him and he does not need to learn them, such as organic factors, genetic factors, mental factors and psychological factors, and some of which are acquired external factors, which are the factors that a person acquires after his birth and interaction with the environment, and in order to cover this topic from all sides, and according to the opinion of criminologists, the main reasons for committing a crime are external and individual, and the latter is divided into physical and psychological factors, and on the other hand, to improve and treat criminals, human society may take preventive measures to prevent the commission of a crime, especially in the family, including positive measures, and the section is social measures.