Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach

Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach

Living and working in a safe area gives every person a confident feeling. It enhances productivity and ensures a safe community. In order to achieve it, crime prevention measures are always considered the main agenda of public authorities. Nevertheless, it has usually been overlooked that the victim...

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Main Authors: Zawawi, Majdah, Hussin, Nasimah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: INSI Publications 2012
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K Law (General)
KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/1/AJBAS%2C_2012_%28special_issue%29_49-55.pdf
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spelling iium-276752012-12-26T02:44:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/ Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach Zawawi, Majdah Hussin, Nasimah K Law (General) KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh Living and working in a safe area gives every person a confident feeling. It enhances productivity and ensures a safe community. In order to achieve it, crime prevention measures are always considered the main agenda of public authorities. Nevertheless, it has usually been overlooked that the victim him/herself can be the contributing factor to the criminal incident. The objective of this paper is to provide suggestions as to how these questions could be answered. The key to these problems lies in educating the community on the preventive measures that could be taken in order to avoid victimization of individuals. Such suggestions are based on Shari‘ah principles. This is done through an analysis of the rulings of the Qur’an and hadith of the Prophet s.a.w. Hence, this paper discusses the preventive measures that can be observed by both individuals and the community to prevent criminal victimization. INSI Publications 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/1/AJBAS%2C_2012_%28special_issue%29_49-55.pdf Zawawi, Majdah and Hussin, Nasimah (2012) Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 6 (11). pp. 49-55. ISSN 1991-8178 http://www.ajbasweb.com
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topic K Law (General)
KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
spellingShingle K Law (General)
KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
Zawawi, Majdah
Hussin, Nasimah
Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach
description Living and working in a safe area gives every person a confident feeling. It enhances productivity and ensures a safe community. In order to achieve it, crime prevention measures are always considered the main agenda of public authorities. Nevertheless, it has usually been overlooked that the victim him/herself can be the contributing factor to the criminal incident. The objective of this paper is to provide suggestions as to how these questions could be answered. The key to these problems lies in educating the community on the preventive measures that could be taken in order to avoid victimization of individuals. Such suggestions are based on Shari‘ah principles. This is done through an analysis of the rulings of the Qur’an and hadith of the Prophet s.a.w. Hence, this paper discusses the preventive measures that can be observed by both individuals and the community to prevent criminal victimization.
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author Zawawi, Majdah
Hussin, Nasimah
author_facet Zawawi, Majdah
Hussin, Nasimah
author_sort Zawawi, Majdah
title Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach
title_short Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach
title_full Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach
title_fullStr Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach
title_full_unstemmed Prevention of criminal victimization: An Islamic approach
title_sort prevention of criminal victimization: an islamic approach
publisher INSI Publications
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/27675/1/AJBAS%2C_2012_%28special_issue%29_49-55.pdf
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