Instances of Religiously Motivated Crimes

Vast majority of studies on the relationship between religion and crime, has focused on the role of religion in crime prevention and the effect of religious motivations in committing crimes was neglected. However, Today's this crimes is accounted for high volume crime offenses in the news around the world, especially in Muslim countries. Religiously motivated crime is "any criminal conduct which the sole or principal motive for committing the act is religious orders or to protect the whole of religion. ". To identify Religiously motivated crime it is needed analytical issues, Because according to this definition, examples of religiously motivated crimes are different. It should be noted that the divine religions are not causing offense and what is the cause of crime in this area is the religious motivations that can be transferred in wrong ways. Religious-motivated crimes in various fields such as variety of instances, frequency, importance of instances, typology of motivation and etc differs with the other crimes and this study seeks to analyze it.