Legislative position on crimes against people with special needs, a comparative study

Abstract

     Many countries have paid attention to people with special needs by concluding many international agreements and charters in order to combat and prohibit various crimes that affect people with disabilities, because disability in all its forms and types has become a problem that all countries suffer from, and it has become a global social phenomenon. Therefore, special care must be provided to these groups because they are helpless. To protect themselves and integrate them into society and oblige states to surround them with special criminal protection and tighten penalties against those who commit crimes against them to deter the perpetrators from exploiting their weakness to facilitate their commission of various crimes.