The effect of kinship on penalty in the Libyan Penal law

Abstract

When the Libyan legislator put the crimes in their legal form, to determine and estimate their pillar and their penalties with the intention of deterring criminals, the circumstances surrounding these crimes must be taken into consideration, and on the basis of which the appropriate penalty for each of them is determined, and the most important circumstances that can distinguish some crimes from others in terms of penalty is the circumstance of kinship Where the Libyan legislator considered in some cases the existence of a kinship relationship between the offender and the victim of the crime as a reason to reduce the penalty prescribed for it or to exempt it from it, and at other times considered it as an aggravating circumstance for the penalty that raises it from the maximum limit prescribed for it.