A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]

This research mainly concerns the mandatory death punishment a treason act under Section 121A of the Penal Code for Offences against the YDPA and the Rulers. The purpose of the study is to propose a discretionary punishment of death under the section as oppose to mandatory. The change in treason law...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah, Zahri, Nor Afiqah, Che Yusoff, Nur Farihah Izazi, Harun, Syahril Anuar
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31480/1/31480.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31480/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara
Language: English
id my.uitm.ir.31480
record_format eprints
spelling my.uitm.ir.314802020-06-23T04:10:28Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31480/ A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.] Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah Zahri, Nor Afiqah Che Yusoff, Nur Farihah Izazi Harun, Syahril Anuar Criminal anthropology. Including criminal types, criminal psychology, prison psychology, causes of crime Criminal justice administration This research mainly concerns the mandatory death punishment a treason act under Section 121A of the Penal Code for Offences against the YDPA and the Rulers. The purpose of the study is to propose a discretionary punishment of death under the section as oppose to mandatory. The change in treason law and its penalties in the United Kingdom and Canada is also analysed and discussed together with the situation in Malaysia. This study highlights other issues of section 121A which are the vagueness of the section itself, unavailability of guidelines in sentencing and the redundancy of the law. This study is important to protect the life of the offenders as well as to promote fair, just and equal sentencing. 2014 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31480/1/31480.pdf Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah and Zahri, Nor Afiqah and Che Yusoff, Nur Farihah Izazi and Harun, Syahril Anuar (2014) A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Mara
content_source UiTM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://ir.uitm.edu.my/
language English
topic Criminal anthropology. Including criminal types, criminal psychology, prison psychology, causes of crime
Criminal justice administration
spellingShingle Criminal anthropology. Including criminal types, criminal psychology, prison psychology, causes of crime
Criminal justice administration
Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah
Zahri, Nor Afiqah
Che Yusoff, Nur Farihah Izazi
Harun, Syahril Anuar
A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]
description This research mainly concerns the mandatory death punishment a treason act under Section 121A of the Penal Code for Offences against the YDPA and the Rulers. The purpose of the study is to propose a discretionary punishment of death under the section as oppose to mandatory. The change in treason law and its penalties in the United Kingdom and Canada is also analysed and discussed together with the situation in Malaysia. This study highlights other issues of section 121A which are the vagueness of the section itself, unavailability of guidelines in sentencing and the redundancy of the law. This study is important to protect the life of the offenders as well as to promote fair, just and equal sentencing.
format Student Project
author Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah
Zahri, Nor Afiqah
Che Yusoff, Nur Farihah Izazi
Harun, Syahril Anuar
author_facet Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah
Zahri, Nor Afiqah
Che Yusoff, Nur Farihah Izazi
Harun, Syahril Anuar
author_sort Mohamed Jamel, Anisa Fadhillah
title A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]
title_short A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]
title_full A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]
title_fullStr A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed A legal review of Section 121A of the Malaysian Penal Code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel … [et al.]
title_sort legal review of section 121a of the malaysian penal code: a proposed move towards amending the mandatory sentence of death / anisa fadhillah mohamed jamel … [et al.]
publishDate 2014
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31480/1/31480.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31480/
_version_ 1685650795078352896