Tazir crime
- noun
- Formal
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delito Tazir
- A Tazir crime can lead to varying penalties depending on the judge's discretion.
Examples
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Modern legal systems in some Muslim countries have codified Tazir crimes in their statutes.
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Unlike hudud offenses, a Tazir crime is not subject to a fixed punishment.
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In some jurisdictions, a judge may impose flexible penalties for Tazir crime.
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Judges often consider the circumstances when deciding on a Tazir crime case.
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A Tazir crime allows the judge to determine the penalty based on the specifics of the case.
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In Islamic law, a Tazir crime does not have a predetermined punishment and is judged individually.
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The concept of a Tazir crime provides flexibility in sentencing, reflecting the circumstances of each offense.
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Tazir + crime
“Tazir” is a specialized Arabic/Islamic-law term referring to discretionary punishment, which is not a transparent semantic modifier that an average B1 learner would infer from the English word “crime.” The combined phrase requires specific cultural-legal knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence rather than simple compositional meaning, so its overall sense is not predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Tazir crime comes from the Arabic word tazir, used in old Muslim courts to mean a punishment the judge could choose. So a Tazir crime is an offense 'without a fixed punishment', where the judge decides the penalty.