The Impact of Culture and Religion in the United States and Saudi Arabia on the Concept of Justice and its Treatment of Insanity Defense

摘要

In this paper I examine convergent and divergent perspectives on justice and their relation to culpability. Two culturally distinct judicial systems serve as the focus, the American rule of law, and Saudi Arabian legal procedures. I studied cultural and legal differences by examining the insanity defense and how it is perceived and practiced in both American and Saudi Arabian societies, according to the prevailing contemporary legal systems.