Criminalization of Personality Assassination via Electronic Means

Abstract

Objective: This study comes to clarify the controls for criminalizing character assassination and identify its elements, by revealing the content and location of the actions of this crime, and showing the features of its criminal confrontation, with the necessity of respecting the rights of people and their freedom to express opinions, based on a broad question created by the new legal construction of the crime of assassination. Personality in terms of its legal meaning, the basis for its criminalization, and the legislator’s plan to confront it. Methods: In this study, the researcher followed the descriptive approach in presenting the legal text criminalizing character assassination and describing its content, as well as the analytical approach in analyzing the words of the text to determine the scope of criminalization and its limits in light of the new issuance of the Jordanian cybercrime law. Results: The study drew a series of conclusions, namely, the singling out of Jordanian legislation worldwide by criminalizing the assassination of the personality, but using only electronic means, where the structure of this offense is predominantly technical this makes it difficult, given the blurry legal structure of the offense, to reveal the limits of the criminalization of the assassination of the personality and to seize its elements, with the legislator moving towards expanding the scope of criminalization by giving meaning to assassination without specifying the people it targets, and considering it a serious offense.