Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 4-1995 The Nature of Law and Its Effects on Certain Criminal Acts: A Comparative Study of Saudi Arabia and the State of Michigan Abdulrahman Almejel Alfaraj Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons Recommended Citation Alfaraj, Abdulrahman Almejel, "The Nature of Law and Its Effects on Certain Criminal Acts: A Comparative Study of Saudi Arabia and the State of Michigan" (1995). Master's Theses. 4175. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4175 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE NATURE OF IAW AND ITS EFFECTS ON CERTAIN CRIMINAL ACTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SAUDI ARABIA AND THE STATE OF MICHIGAN by Abdulrahman Almejel Alfaraj A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of Sociology Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan April 1995 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank everybody who helped me to complete this thesis, especially my advisor, Dr. Douglas Davidson, and the committee members: Dr. James Petersen and Dr. Donald _Cooney. To my parents, wife, children, relatives and friends, thank you. Abdulrahman Almejel Alfaraj ii THE NATURE OF IAW AND ITS EFFECTS ON CERTAIN CRIMINAL ACTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SAUDI ARABIA AND THE STATE OF MICHIGAN Abdulrahman Almejel Alfaraj, M.A.