The Legal Framework for Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Begging in Palestine

Abstract

The study dealt with a topic of importance is the legal framework governing the criminal responsibility for the crime of begging in Palestine, and given the seriousness of this crime, the Jordanian Penal Code No. (16) of 1960 in force in the West Bank and the Palestinian Penal Code No. (74) of 1936 in force in Gaza have been singled out legal texts regulating it. The study aimed to clarify the legal framework governing the crime of begging in Palestine through the statement of the methods by which this crime occurs and the conditions of its establishment and the penalty for criminal behavior through a review of the legal texts governing it and the statement of penalties and precautionary measures resulting from the act of the beggar, as this study showed the effects of the phenomenon of begging down to ways to treat this phenomenon through the use of the descriptive analytical approach to the legal texts related to the subject of research. The study also concluded a set of results and recommendations, the most important of which is that Article (389) of the Jordanian Penal Code in force in the West Bank and Article (193) of the Palestinian Penal Code in force in Gaza stipulate the forms of criminal behavior in which this crime occurs, either the most important recommendation .