This volume contains “General Provisions” on crime, the offender, criminal responsibility, and criminal sanctions, whether punishment or precautionary measures: Punishment or precautionary measures, as concluded by contemporary Western criminal jurisprudence in general and Italian criminal jurisprudence in particular, and Arab jurisprudence in particular, in the light of what has been elaborated by scholars of Islamic criminal jurisprudence, and within the framework of the provisions, principles and rules of the Islamic Shari'a.