جريمة التحرش في النظام السعودي

Abstract EN

This research investigated the crime of harassment in the Saudi system.

It demonstrated the advantages and objectives of this system in combating harassment in the Kingdom, both in public and indoor areas as well as in the work environment.

The subject of this study included four topics, respectively: Firstly, it dealt with the definition of harassment in jurisprudence and the system in terms of its types and forms.

Then, the study showed the distinction between the crime of harassment and suspected crimes, such as the crimes of flagrant act and indecent assault.

Also, this research discussed the position of Islamic law on the prohibition of harassment.

Secondly, the study provided a discussion on the elements of the crime of harassment in terms of the right of the criminally protected victim, and then revealed the material obligations of the crime of harassment, which are the acts committed by the perpetrator against the victim, whether by touching, saying or in any other way as a means of modern technology.

In addition, this section of the study showed the moral element of the crime of harassment, which is the criminal intent; being an intentional crime in which the criminal error is not conceived.

Thirdly, this research pointed out the prosecution and measures to prevent the crime of harassment, where it has shown that the system provided special provisions on the initiation of criminal proceedings in the crime of harassment in which it not confined to handling the perpetrator on the complaint of the victim since the public interest prevails over the private interest in the complaint.

The regime also was involved in combating the harassment in the government and the private sectors where it obliged them to put preventive measures in the work place environment to reduce the commission of harassment and decide to draw punishment for violating rules.

Fourthly, the researcher dealt with the provisions of the crime of harassment of imprisonment or a fine or both.

Also, the research exposed the aggravating circumstances of these punishments provided by the regime.

Then, this section explained the punishment of attempted harassment and the punishment of its partners, in which it equated their penalties with that of the perpetrator.

Further, the study indicated the penalty for malicious communication and prosecution.

Finally, this research provided a considerable number of conclusions and recommendations on the findings of this research in addition to a list of references.