The Application of General Deterrence Measures on Perpetrators of Premeditated Homicide-Murder Crime in Saudi Arabia
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The present study seeks to verify the implementation of general deterrence measures on perpetrators of premeditated murder in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The purposes of this study are to find out the clarity of that punishment, the promptness of its implementation, and people’s conviction in its justice from the point of view of Saudi society. The study community included Saudis from various cultural backgrounds and geographical locations. In this study, the researcher used the descriptive and analytical approach and a questionnaire as a research tool. The study sample, which is a simple random one, consisted of 706 individuals. The researcher distributed the questionnaires to the sample members and used descriptive statistics to describe the characteristics of the primary data of the sample. The researcher relied on percentages, frequencies, and arithmetic means and standard deviations to answer the study questions and used the T-Test to find out the statistically significant differences in the study tenets attributed to the characteristics of housing type, gender, and marital status.
The study concluded with a set of results, the most important of which is the clarity of the punishment for premeditated murder among the sample members. Members of the sample, though a minority, believed that the punishment for premeditated murder in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should be carried out sooner. Most of the respondents to the questionnaire supported the justice of the death penalty as a punishment for premeditated murder.
The study recommends the necessity of working toward finding a mechanism to accelerate the legal procedures relating to some cases of premeditated murder in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to achieve the required deterrence resulting from the punishment, especially in relation to those who were definitively proved to have committed murder. The study also recommends holding awareness-raising lectures for young people to remind them of the punishment for premeditated murder.
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Security Studies, General Deterrence, Premeditated Murder, Punishments, Saudi Arabia
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