Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia

Sexual harassment is one of the contemporary silent issues in academic setting in the schools and institution of higher education. The above subject has become a climax discourse and heatedly debated in various sectors in the recent past. A number of theoretical and empirical studies have demonstrat...

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Main Author: Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
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Language:English
Published: Inderscience Publisher 2015
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spelling iium-402322016-10-21T05:06:17Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40232/ Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali K Law (General) Sexual harassment is one of the contemporary silent issues in academic setting in the schools and institution of higher education. The above subject has become a climax discourse and heatedly debated in various sectors in the recent past. A number of theoretical and empirical studies have demonstrated that sexual harassment has a tendency of causing long term psychological disturbances to the victims. Despite of advocacy of no discrimination between female and male in education, sexual harassment in schools and higher educational institutions in Malaysia is drastically prevalent. This paper therefore explores the domestic laws of Malaysia dealing with sexual misconduct against the students and its adequacy. Inderscience Publisher 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40232/1/International_Journal_of_Private_Law_Article.pdf Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali (2015) Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia. International Journal of Private Law, 8 (1). pp. 59-72. ISSN 1753-6235 E-ISSN 1753-6243
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Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
description Sexual harassment is one of the contemporary silent issues in academic setting in the schools and institution of higher education. The above subject has become a climax discourse and heatedly debated in various sectors in the recent past. A number of theoretical and empirical studies have demonstrated that sexual harassment has a tendency of causing long term psychological disturbances to the victims. Despite of advocacy of no discrimination between female and male in education, sexual harassment in schools and higher educational institutions in Malaysia is drastically prevalent. This paper therefore explores the domestic laws of Malaysia dealing with sexual misconduct against the students and its adequacy.
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author Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
author_facet Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
author_sort Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali
title Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
title_short Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
title_full Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
title_fullStr Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
title_sort sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in malaysia
publisher Inderscience Publisher
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/40232/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/40232/1/International_Journal_of_Private_Law_Article.pdf
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