Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal

Recently, there has been substantial increase in the number of criminal cases involving sexual crimes against children. Fortunately, due to society’s encouragement and concern on the problem, children are starting to speak out and parents, teachers, social service agencies, law enforcement as well a...

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Main Author: Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail
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Language:English
Published: Serial Publications 2017
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spelling iium-610572018-01-01T11:01:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/61057/ Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KD England and Wales KPG Malaysia Recently, there has been substantial increase in the number of criminal cases involving sexual crimes against children. Fortunately, due to society’s encouragement and concern on the problem, children are starting to speak out and parents, teachers, social service agencies, law enforcement as well as prosecution started to listen to them and the Parliament also has recently passed the legislation on Sexual Offences Against Children 2017. The question is what makes the sexual abuse of children different from other criminal cases is because of the victim are children. Referring to the definition of child under Child Act 2001, it is defined as a person under the age of eighteen years. It is the nature of children that they are particularly vulnerable as victims of the crime. In addition, the fact that mostly children are physically fragile and smaller, naive and young made them are less able to articulate their experiences and feeling if being victimized Serial Publications 2017-06-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61057/1/Child%20Testimony%20-%20JILR.pdf Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail (2017) Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal. Journal of Islamic Law Review, 13 (1). pp. 101-118. ISSN 0973-2918
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KBP Islamic Law
KD England and Wales
KPG Malaysia
Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail
Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
description Recently, there has been substantial increase in the number of criminal cases involving sexual crimes against children. Fortunately, due to society’s encouragement and concern on the problem, children are starting to speak out and parents, teachers, social service agencies, law enforcement as well as prosecution started to listen to them and the Parliament also has recently passed the legislation on Sexual Offences Against Children 2017. The question is what makes the sexual abuse of children different from other criminal cases is because of the victim are children. Referring to the definition of child under Child Act 2001, it is defined as a person under the age of eighteen years. It is the nature of children that they are particularly vulnerable as victims of the crime. In addition, the fact that mostly children are physically fragile and smaller, naive and young made them are less able to articulate their experiences and feeling if being victimized
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author Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail
author_facet Mohamad Yunus, Mohamad Ismail
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title Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
title_short Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
title_full Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
title_fullStr Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
title_full_unstemmed Relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
title_sort relevancy and admissibility of child testimony: a comparative appraisal
publisher Serial Publications
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/61057/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/61057/1/Child%20Testimony%20-%20JILR.pdf
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