12. Why punish?

Author(s):  
Raymond Wacks

The subject of the punishment of offenders always excites controversy. Some will argue that the law is too soft. Others believe that it is excessively harsh. This chapter examines how the exercise of punishment (in pursuit of the enforcement of the criminal law) might be validated. Futher it examines the various theories that have been advanced by penologists, law reformers, and philosophers to justify or explain its rationale. These theories include the idea of retributivism, consequentialism, restorative justice, and denunciation. Each of these theories makes an attempt to defend the use of state coercion in order to achieve certain objectives.

Author(s):  
Schabas William A

This chapter comments on Article 24 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Preceded by two provisions that entrench two Latin maxims described collectively as the principle of legality, article 24 completes the treatment of the subject in Part 3 of the Rome Statute. Article 24 promises the accused that if there is a change in the law applicable to a given case prior to a final judgment, ‘the law more favourable shall apply’. However, this rule giving the defendant the benefit of the ‘more favourable’ provision is not without difficulties. It is not always a simple manner to determine which rule is in fact more favourable. Moreover, there may be an important element of subjectivity, in that individuals may differ in their assessment.


1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glanville Williams

Why is it that intention, or intent, one of the basic concepts of the criminal law, remains so unclear? Judges decline to define it, and they appear to adjust it from one case to another.Part of the trouble is the disagreement on the subject of intention amoung jurists generally. The Philosophers who have lately arrived on the scene, hoping to help the lawyers to slove their legal problems, in fact give only limited assistance. Their philosophical interest stems from the fact that intention is an important ethical concept, but they do not relate their discussions to any particular ethical concept, but they do not relate their discussions to any particular ethical theory, and they do not sufficiently consider the specific requirements of the criminal law. Indeed, they mix up the ordinary meaning of the word “intention” with its desirable legal meaning. To be sure, the meaning of intention as a technical term of the law ought to be close to the literary and popular one, but there are sound reasons for saying that the two should not always be indentical.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Saeful Bahar Bahar

This article highlights the controversy of revised act of corruption commission (UU KPK) and of the Book of Criminal Law (KUHP) which had heated up. By using legal gap theory, this writing uncovers the legal gap between the contents of revised KUHP and living laws. Consequently, people in the grassroots level seem more enthusiastic about the issue, for example, the fines because livestock entering other people yards than weakening KPK issues that drive a wave of demonstrations at the level of well-educated people. Many studies in the sphere of sociology of law that have conducted gave much attentions to the living law or norm in the mods of society. However there is not much of them which gave attention to the legal gap phenomena, it is the incompatibility between living law and formal one. Whereas, such an approach tend to be considered late if it we aim to put the sociology of law as one discipline of social science which is useful in strengthening the law enforcement. In the hilt of the matter, there is an issue of the legal gap which should have been expressed from the beginning, mainly as to the compatibility between formal and informal law when legislation was going on. By utilizing literature study, the research found that; firstly, the resistance against revised KUHP is the logical consequence of legal gap phenomena that has potential legal conflict. Secondly, there are four major manners could be done to resolve the gap; repression, counseling, reformation and restorative justice.


AKADEMIKA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Fageh

Abstract: Efforts to bring together the synergity of positive legal products and the value of morality of the nation as the wisdom of local cultures to-Indonesiaan needs the seriousness of various parties. Specifically, the provisions of the law governing adultery that truly reflect the aspirations and values that live in the community and are moral mirroring, are indispensable to the attention of many other aspects that Need to also note. While awaiting its realization, the author considers it to be no longer the time when all parties excuse that the freedom and privacy of a person in the sex field is ' closed ' to the law, so that the criminal law stops at the front door of the room. Therefore, maintaining the notion of adultery according to the PENAL code (which is now in force), is the same by validating the sofsion of the values of goodness that live in society. Do we have to be flashed and want to keep that detrimental ' privacy '? Do we still have to ' endure ' by skipping.The formulation of TP fornication in the RUU KUHP has a wider scope than arranged in the KUHP. This is reflected in article 417 and article 419 RUU KUHP, which arranges about the deed of intercourse with a person who is not a husband or his or his/her "collect Kebo" act. Controversy appear as the Delik fornication arranged in both of the article is a complaints delics (still equal to the Delik fornication in article 284 KUHP). The fornication act is not changed to a common delics that can be reported by anyone who knows the deeds. From the subject side, the right to complain has been expanded in a RUU KUHP, which can be complained by a husband, wife, parent, or child.Keywords: Free sec, positive law, national morality


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Noor Fajari Rofiq

Cases of prostitution as the subject of commercial sex workers (Pekerja Sex Komersial) and sex service users until now are free to undergo without the threat of punishment. Until now, there has been no rule that can punish prostitutes or prostitutes and their customers .then there needs to be a legal reconstruction to achieve a responsive law then need to reform the law to achieve the law in the goal. This research aimed to know and understand the Construction of Prostitution Crimes in the Criminal Code, and The Penal Code Bill is associated with Religious Norms. And Know and understand the Construction of Formulation of Prostitution Crimes that are Ideal and in line with religious norms for Indonesian society, as for normative juridical research methods. The approach used in this writing is a statutory approach or (statute approach) and the analytical and conceptual approach analysis of legal concepts. The results show that it is necessary to explore the concept of philosophical, sociological, and juridical basic values that the state to have legal certainty in society in the Criminal War draft stage. So digging into the philosophical value of the 1st  Pancasila,  The One Godhead (Ketuhanan yang Maha Esa), the five religions apply in Indonesia, including Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hindu, Buddha, and Confucian has asserted that the practice of prostitution is legally prohibited.


Author(s):  
Septa Candra

Restorative Justice adalah merupakan suatu bentuk model pendekatan baru dalam penyelesaian perkara pidana. Model pendekatan restorative justice ini sebenarnya telah digunakan dibeberapa negara dengan fokus pendekatannya kepada pelaku, korban dan masyarakat dalam proses penyelesaian kasus hukum yang terjadi diantara mereka. Walaupun model pendekatan ini masih banyak diperdebatkan dalam tataran teori oleh para ahli, namun dalam kenyataannya tetap tumbuh dan eksis serta mempengaruhi kebijakan dan praktek hukum di banyak negara. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini yaitu bagaimana mekanisme penerapan pendekatan restorative justice dalam penyelesaian kasus hukum di Indonesia dan bagaimana konsep restorative justice dapat menjadi bagian dari pembaharuan hukum pidana di masa yang akan datang. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif analitis dan bersifat kualitatif, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Indonesia dengan angka kejahatan yang relatif tinggi, patut pula untuk dipertimbangkan model restorative justice ini menjadi bagian dari pendekatan dalam penyelesaian kasus-kasus hukum yang terjadi selama ini. Dalam perkembangannya prinsip restorative justice sudah diintrodusir melalui sejumlah ketentuan dalam RUU KUHP dan diversi terhadap anak, terutama untuk memberikan keseimbangan perhatian diantara stakeholders hukum pidana (pelaku, korban, masyarakat dan negara). Tentunya, model pendekatan ini diharapkan dapat menjadi bagian dari pembaharuan hukum pidana Indonesia di masa yang akan datang guna mencapai keadilan, kepastian dan kemanfaatan sebagai tujuan dari hukum itu sendiri.<p>Restorative justice is a new approach model to solve criminal matters. Restorative justice model is an approach that has actually been used in several countries with focus its approach to offenders, victims and the community in the process of settlement of legal cases that have happened among them. Even though the model has still been widely debated in the level of theory, but in fact, it still grows and exists, also influences policy and practice of the law in many countries. Based on the reasons, the focus of this study, namely: How is a mechanism of a restorative justice approach in solving legal cases in Indonesia? How is the concept of restorative justice that can be a part of the reform of criminal law in the future? The research applies descriptive analysis study and uses qualitative method. The result of the study shows that Indonesia as a law state with criminal figures relatively high ought also to be considered that the model of restorative justice may become an approach for solving legal cases. Restorative justice principles in development have already been introduced through a number of provisions in the Criminal Code Bill and diversion of children, especially to provide a balance among stakeholders in criminal law (perpetrators, victims, community and nation). Of course, this model is expected to be a part of the Indonesian criminal law reform in the future to bring justice, certainty and expediency as the purpose of the law itself.</p>


Author(s):  
Michael Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Textbook on Criminal Law has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past 28 years. This is the fifteenth edition, which has been updated to include all of the latest case law and statutory changes. Topics covered include actus reus, mens rea, negligence and strict liability, and capacity and incapacitating conditions. It also examines general defences, parties to crime, inchoate offences, and homicide. Towards the end of the book chapters consider non-fatal offences, sexual offences, offences under the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978, fraud, and criminal damage.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (06) ◽  
pp. 226-235
Author(s):  
Feddy Hantyo Nugroho ◽  
Rodliyah ◽  
Amiruddin

This research was conducted to analyze and find out how criminal law policy is in the effort to apply criminal sanctions against children facing the law in terms of Law No. 11 of 2012 concerning the Criminal Justice System for Children and whether the concept of Diversity can be applied in the process of law enforcement against children involved in Narcotics Crimes. This research is a normative study, to analyze the legal material related to the problem under study, the author uses the Interpretation, Subjective and Objective Interpretation instruments, after that the authors process these legal materials by deductive thinking. The results obtained from the study that the drafting of Law Number 11 of 2012 is a replacement to Law Number 3 of 1997 concerning juvenile justice conducted with the aim of establishing a judiciary that truly guarantees the best protection of the interests of children facing the law as nation's next generation. The concept of Restorative Justice is one of the important things in Law Number 11 of 2012 where restoring the situation as it used to be the main goal and also no less important is the form of criminal sanctions that can be imposed on Children where criminal sanctions that are harsh and miserable are used as ultimum Remedium is not as a premium remedium especially as a maximum remedium. The concept of diversion that should be applied in Indonesia in the future, should be a combination of the concept of diversion that is applied in Australia, namely Police Diversion which is combined with the process of handling cases with the diversion prevailing in Indonesia today.


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anis Shuhaiza Md Salleh

Parental child abduction is an unacceptable and condemned act due to its bad implication caused especially on the child. Nevertheless, it was hard to charge parents for absconding or stealing their own child for a long accepted tradition and settled rule that both parents have equal rights over the child. Both would have justifications for their act to be considered as good and bad for the child even to the extent of abducting him or her from the other parent. However, as time passed, the laws particularly, family and criminal law, have also developed to face rapid changes in the family institution. The need to reform the laws for want of jurisdiction or lack of uniformity or adequacy of laws on a certain matter were among the result of the changes in family pattern.  Experience from cases showed that it was very hard for any parent to get back his or her child once the subject has been brought outside the country. Thus, this article is aiming at scrutinising the domestic laws of Malaysia, particularly the family and criminal laws on parental child abduction as well as its enforcement aspect by referring to the relevant provisions and the decided cases. Suggestions are provided to strengthen the law and its enforcement aspect, being a tool to prevent parental child abduction.  


Temida ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Bacanovic

The author tried to outline the status of crime victims in Macedonian criminal and juvenile legislation by analyzing three legal texts referring to legal protection of victims under criminal law in the Republic of Macedonia (the Criminal Code, the Law on Criminal Procedure Act and the Law on Juvenile Justice). The basic questions which have been analyzed from the criminal substantial aspect include: the rights and interests of the victims as a consistent part of contemporary criminal policy and Criminal Code reforms, the elements of diversion model based on concept of restorative justice in criminal legislation and victimology aspects of some significant novelties in the special part of criminal law. In this article two dimensions dealing with a change of status of damaged person in criminal procedure of the Republic of Macedonia have been analyzed, while taking into consideration new trends and comparative experiences in this field. One dimension is the role of the damaged person and incorporation of elements of restorative justice in the criminal procedure, while the other dimension includes help and support of the victims and prevention of their secondary victimization. While analyzing suitable provisions of the Law on Juvenile Justice, the author focuses on its solutions that deserve more attention because of its innovations. The consequent realization of the concept on which this law is based on, and in which the victim, at the same time, has a significant role is another confirmation of the rule that the changes of juvenile legislation creates good basis for future reforms of criminal legislation regarding the adult offenders.


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