o:10055 Low/Base Motive as a Qualifying Circumstance of the Criminal Act of Murder en Abstract: The most serious form of life injury, in all criminal laws, from ancient times to the present, represents the crime of murder. Depending on the motivation of the perpetrator, the circumstances of the execution, characteristics of the perpetrator and the victim, the manner/method and means of execution, the scope/extent of the consequences, and other circumstances, there are different forms and types of manifestation of this criminal act. There are three forms of this criminal act. These are: a) ordinary murder, b) serious (qualified) murders, for which the most severe types of punishment known in the specific criminal legislation are prescribed, and c) easy (privileged) murders. Among the most serious crimes of this type is definitely a murder, which consists of illegal intentional/deliberate deprivation of another person 's life for special reasons of low (defamatory) motives. This crime is punishable by life imprisonment in Serbian criminal law, which represents the subject of analysis in this paper from the theoretical, practical and comparative law/legal aspects. Keywords: life, deprivation, low motive, law, crime, responsibility. 1552101 2360-4964 2026-07-23T12:45:11.190Z 44 no 46 Dragan Jovašević Law Faculty, University of Niš, Serbia 4091239 0000-0003-1136-5980 Zoran Pavlović Law Faculty, University of Busines Academy Novi Sad person 7550823 0000-0002-9625-1298 Đorđe Sančanin Law Faculty, University of Busines Academy Novi Sad, Serbia person 74899209 0000-0001-5884-0772 application/pdf 388811 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:10055 no yes 1 70 1552253 Journal of Eastern European Criminal Law 9 1 97 115 2022