Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft

Witchcraft has been already known to cause harm to humans. In fact, the 33rd Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs of Malaysia ruled that the authorities must provide legal provisions to punish witches. Disappointingly, after 20 years, the law has not yet been enacted...

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Main Authors:	Mahyuddin, Ismail, Mansor, Sulaiman, Zulfakar, Ramlee, Mohd Syahrizal Syah, Zakaria
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Knowledge Transfer Centre, USM 2016
Subjects:	BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/1/Paper%2082%20C-CRC-118-Mahyuddin%20Ismail-UMP.pdf

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spelling	ump-148442018-05-18T01:15:04Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/ Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft Mahyuddin, Ismail Mansor, Sulaiman Zulfakar, Ramlee Mohd Syahrizal Syah, Zakaria BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc Witchcraft has been already known to cause harm to humans. In fact, the 33rd Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs of Malaysia ruled that the authorities must provide legal provisions to punish witches. Disappointingly, after 20 years, the law has not yet been enacted. This is due to the failure of the related parties to understand the nature of witchcraft itself as well as the difficulty of proof-finding in court. Thus, this transfer program aims to disclose the new findings of research on witchcraft law exclusively to government officers who involve in drafting, prosecuting and executing the law. The program applied several methods including thorough discussion, case studies, simulations and scene investigation in 5 series of workshop. In this program, four major issues, namely the legal provisions, the legal procedures, the expert recognition and the legal evidences are thoroughly discussed. As a result, a set of proposal which contains a comprehensive draft of the provisions, the S.O.P. For investigation, arrest, search and seizure process, and the types of admissible evidence is to be brought to the authorities. This program successfully convinced the participants that offenses relating to witchcraft can be overcome through legal mechanisms Knowledge Transfer Centre, USM 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/1/Paper%2082%20C-CRC-118-Mahyuddin%20Ismail-UMP.pdf Mahyuddin, Ismail and Mansor, Sulaiman and Zulfakar, Ramlee and Mohd Syahrizal Syah, Zakaria (2016) Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Transfer (ICKT'15), 1-3 December 2015 , Putrajaya Marriott Hotel, Malaysia. pp. 519-524.. ISBN 978-967-394-255-8 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByBlFVsjNeg5d2NvWFZyUEY3blE/view
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spellingShingle	BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc Mahyuddin, Ismail Mansor, Sulaiman Zulfakar, Ramlee Mohd Syahrizal Syah, Zakaria Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft
description	Witchcraft has been already known to cause harm to humans. In fact, the 33rd Fatwa Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs of Malaysia ruled that the authorities must provide legal provisions to punish witches. Disappointingly, after 20 years, the law has not yet been enacted. This is due to the failure of the related parties to understand the nature of witchcraft itself as well as the difficulty of proof-finding in court. Thus, this transfer program aims to disclose the new findings of research on witchcraft law exclusively to government officers who involve in drafting, prosecuting and executing the law. The program applied several methods including thorough discussion, case studies, simulations and scene investigation in 5 series of workshop. In this program, four major issues, namely the legal provisions, the legal procedures, the expert recognition and the legal evidences are thoroughly discussed. As a result, a set of proposal which contains a comprehensive draft of the provisions, the S.O.P. For investigation, arrest, search and seizure process, and the types of admissible evidence is to be brought to the authorities. This program successfully convinced the participants that offenses relating to witchcraft can be overcome through legal mechanisms
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mahyuddin, Ismail Mansor, Sulaiman Zulfakar, Ramlee Mohd Syahrizal Syah, Zakaria
author_facet	Mahyuddin, Ismail Mansor, Sulaiman Zulfakar, Ramlee Mohd Syahrizal Syah, Zakaria
author_sort	Mahyuddin, Ismail
title	Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft
title_short	Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft
title_full	Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft
title_fullStr	Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft
title_full_unstemmed	Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft
title_sort	transferring knowledge and expertise to legal officers on how to prosecute criminals relating to witchcraft
publisher	Knowledge Transfer Centre, USM
publishDate	2016
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14844/1/Paper%2082%20C-CRC-118-Mahyuddin%20Ismail-UMP.pdf
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Transferring Knowledge and Expertise to Legal Officers on How to Prosecute Criminals Relating to Witchcraft

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