Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law

Given the seriousness of child sexual crimes in Malaysia, and the growing public concern about this area of offence, law enforcement agencies need a committed and coordinated approach in detecting and countering paedophilia. Thus, the government recently established a proactive, intelligence-driven...

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Main Authors:	Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail, Mohamad Hanifa, Shamshina, Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Ikhbal
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Published:	Serials Publications 2018
Subjects:	K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh KD England and Wales KPG Malaysia
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spelling	iium-681832018-11-30T07:50:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/68183/ Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail Mohamad Hanifa, Shamshina Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Ikhbal K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh KD England and Wales KPG Malaysia Given the seriousness of child sexual crimes in Malaysia, and the growing public concern about this area of offence, law enforcement agencies need a committed and coordinated approach in detecting and countering paedophilia. Thus, the government recently established a proactive, intelligence-driven investigative task force called Sexual Crimes Against Children under the Prime Minister Department, which is to introduce the most effective law enforcement against paedophilia etc. By establishing the specialist task force in this way, offenders are likely to be detected, traced, identified and apprehended far earlier, with less resource, than with the traditional complaints-based approach. Recently, One of Britain's worst paedophiles, who posted on the so-called “dark web” as he abused up to 200 Malaysian children, has been handed 22 life sentences. Briton Richard Huckle (born 14 May 1986) is a convicted sex offender of Paedophilia. He was arrested by Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) after a tip-off from Australian Police and convicted of 71 counts of serious sexual crimes against children while posing as a teacher, photographer, and devout Christian in Malaysia. Huckle has been described as Britain's worst ever paedophile by both the media and the prosecution team, despite only being 28 years old at the time of his arrest, and on 6 June 2016, he was given 22 life sentences with a minimum prison term of 25 years before being eligible to apply for parole. How do the Malaysian Penal Code and Islamic law (Shariah) protect children against paedophilia and other sexual abuse? Does the existing law provide an adequate protection to the children in Malaysia? Serials Publications 2018-11-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68183/1/JILR%20july-dec%202018.pdf Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail and Mohamad Hanifa, Shamshina and Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Ikhbal (2018) Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law. Journal of Islamic Law Review, 14 (2). pp. 225-246. ISSN 0973-2918 http://www.serials.mail.com
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spellingShingle	K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh KD England and Wales KPG Malaysia Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail Mohamad Hanifa, Shamshina Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Ikhbal Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law
description	Given the seriousness of child sexual crimes in Malaysia, and the growing public concern about this area of offence, law enforcement agencies need a committed and coordinated approach in detecting and countering paedophilia. Thus, the government recently established a proactive, intelligence-driven investigative task force called Sexual Crimes Against Children under the Prime Minister Department, which is to introduce the most effective law enforcement against paedophilia etc. By establishing the specialist task force in this way, offenders are likely to be detected, traced, identified and apprehended far earlier, with less resource, than with the traditional complaints-based approach. Recently, One of Britain's worst paedophiles, who posted on the so-called “dark web” as he abused up to 200 Malaysian children, has been handed 22 life sentences. Briton Richard Huckle (born 14 May 1986) is a convicted sex offender of Paedophilia. He was arrested by Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) after a tip-off from Australian Police and convicted of 71 counts of serious sexual crimes against children while posing as a teacher, photographer, and devout Christian in Malaysia. Huckle has been described as Britain's worst ever paedophile by both the media and the prosecution team, despite only being 28 years old at the time of his arrest, and on 6 June 2016, he was given 22 life sentences with a minimum prison term of 25 years before being eligible to apply for parole. How do the Malaysian Penal Code and Islamic law (Shariah) protect children against paedophilia and other sexual abuse? Does the existing law provide an adequate protection to the children in Malaysia?
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author	Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail Mohamad Hanifa, Shamshina Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Ikhbal
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title	Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law
title_short	Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law
title_full	Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law
title_fullStr	Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law
title_full_unstemmed	Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law
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publisher	Serials Publications
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Towards a comparative legal analysis on the legal issue of paedophilia in Malaysia and Islamic law

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