العود في التشريع الجزائي الكويتي

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Objectives : This research aims to determine the applied criminal legislation in case of recidivism explaining with obligatory conditions that must meet the applicability and its results.

Furthermore, it also seeks to evaluate the efficiency of the penal policy by Kuwaiti legislator facing recidivism.

Method : The research was based on the analytical method of general texts that related to recidivism and its associated con cepts.

It also follows descriptive approach while reviewing recidivism in Kuwaiti criminal law and its policy countering this phenomenon.

The research mainly counted on the posi tion of Kuwaiti criminal law, and how to confront recidivism through general texts and rules including stipulated recidi vism in specific texts.

Results : The research results assured that despite some legislative deficiency, the policy of Kuwaiti criminal law facing recidivism's phenomenon is extremely effective and successful.

Conclusion : We concluded the re search with a bunch of recommendations that called the Ku waiti criminal law to amend some recidivism related texts, to enact new laws to reach clarity, and seriously address recidi vism in order to limit this phenomenon.