scholarly journals Applying Hirāba in Islamic Criminal Law to Curb Armed Banditry in the Zamfara State of Nigeria: Opportunities and Challenges

MAZAHIB ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Maritime Piracy ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Maximum Security

The paper investigates the armed banditry that engages in the highway robbery attacking villagers and travelers in the Zamfara state of Nigeria. The paper aimed at examines hirāba in Islamic criminal law and the penal code of the state for the possibility of applying the provisions to curb armed banditry in the state. The paper is a Sharia study; thus, the descriptive-analytical method was followed. Opinions of four Sunni schools are relied on in most cases. In addition, academic works of contemporary jurists and thinkers in journals were extensively consulted. The critical studies of jurist’s definitions of hirāba revealed that the crime of hirāba comprises maritime piracy, aircraft hijacking, armed banditry, kidnapping, and any act of destroying society. Zamfara state, which first reintroduced the Islamic criminal system, witnessed maximum security between 2000 and 2009 because there is a political will to enforce Islamic law. Although it is alleged that Sharia was supposed to bring joy but brought bandits to the state, while the study revealed that armed banditry started around 2009, sharia implementation is not responsible for the insecurity. The paper concludes that the practical solution is the enforcement of new Sharia in the region.Keywords: armed robbery, banditry, highway robbery, hirāba.

scholarly journals Torture without physical pain: Inside cell 24 of the special wing for political prisoners-Evin prison (Iran)

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasti Irani
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
Christian Family

I come from Iran, an immense country of more than 77 million inhabitants, the cradle of Persian civilization, and one of the richest and most ancient cultural traditions of humankind, with deep values of respect and tolerance. 38 years ago there was an Islamic revolution that turned Iran into a country that has Islam as an official religion and in which laws must conform to Sharia or Islamic law. I belong to the Christian minority, officially recognised in the Iranian constitution, but only for those born in an ethnically Christian family. People who, like me, were born into an Islamic family and converted to Christianity, are considered apostates and guilty of a serious crime under Sharia. In the last year alone about 200 people who have been accused of apostasy have been imprisoned and many have been tortured. That was the reason I was detained. We Christians are no threat to the national security of Iran. We are not going against the State. But we are treated as such. We, although citizens of Iran, are under Criminal Law, the Enemy.

Toward a Contemporary Concept of Criminal Justice

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-493
Author(s):  
Helen Silving
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
The Other ◽  
Model Penal Code ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
American Law ◽  
The One

The state of our “criminal law” in 1905 was described by William H. Taft as “a disgrace to our civilization”. This state had not changed much almost half a century later, when Justice Frankfurter quoted Mr. Taft's statement. Several major modern reform projects formulated since 1952 introduced some noteworthy modifications. I have in mind particularly the American Law Institute Model Penal Code, on the one hand, and the German Draft of a Penal Code, both of 1962, on the other. In the former I should like to draw attention to the serious attempt at a systematization of punishment scales, and in the latter to the effort at a systematic structuring of the “guilt principle”. The German Draft incorporated results of various revisions introduced since the collapse of the National Socialist régime, by either statutory or judicial legislation—revisions born out of the growing concern in Germany with “guilt”. Prominent among these revisions, of course, is adoption of the defence of “error of law” of ancient origin, derived from biblical, talmudic and canon law teaching. Nevertheless, these two projects have but touched the surface of the profound problems that are involved in formulating truly modern penal legislation.

scholarly journals Tindak Pidana Turut Serta Sebagai Perantara Suap Perspektif Hukum Pidana Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-90
Author(s):  
Adeng Septi Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
National Disaster ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Abstract: This article discusses about the sanction of criminal act as a bribery mediator under the perspective of Islamic Criminal Law. The criminal act as a bribery mediator is explained in the Penal Code in Article 55 Paragraph (1) ie those who do, who order to do, and who participate in doing the deed. The bribery crime is also described in Article 12 Sub-Article c of Law No. 31 year 1999 jo Law No. 20 year 2001 on the “eradication of corruption cases that punishment for the perpetrator of bribery, gratification, etc., will be imprisoned and/or sanction. Even in the specific provision, if corruption is done by causing harm to the state, such as a national disaster or at a time when the country is in a state of economic crisis, it can be subject to capital punishment. The purposes of applying punishment in positive law are to create certainty, justice, and legal benefit in Indonesia. The Islamic criminal law has made it clear that unlawful acts in bribery (isytirâk fî al jarîmah al-risywah) according to Muslim scholars are haram (unlawful). The punishment for the perpetrators of isytirâk fî al jarîmah al-risywah is ta'zîr. Keywords: Criminal act, bribery mediator, Islamic criminal law. Abstrak: Artikel ini membahas tentang sanksi tindak pidana turut serta sebagai perantara suap perspektif hukum pidana Islam. Tindak pidana turut serta dijelaskan dalam KUHP dalam pasal 55 ayat (1) yaitu mereka yang melakukan, yang menyuruh melakukan, dan yang turut serta melakukan perbuatan. Adapun tindak pidana suap dijelaskan dalam Pasal 12 huruf c UU Nomor 31 Tahun 1999 jo UU Nomor 20 Tahun 2001 tentang Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Korupsi bahwa ancaman hukuman bagi pelakunya, baik itu suap, gratifikasi, dan lain-lain, akan dikenakan hukuman penjara dan/atau denda. Bahkan dalam ketentuan khususnya, apabila korupsi dilakukan dengan mengakibatkan bahaya bagi negara, seperti terjadi bencana nasional atau pada saat negara dalam keadaan krisis ekonomi, maka dapat diancam hukuman mati. Tujuan penerapan hukuman tersebut adalah menciptakan kepastian, keadilan, dan kemanfaatan hukum di Indonesia. Hukum pidana Islam telah menjelaskan bahwa perbuatan melawan hukum dalam turut serta suap (isytirâk fî jarîmah al-risywah) menurut para ulama adalah haram dan hukumannya adalah ta’zîr. Kata Kunci: Tindak pidana, perantara suap, hukum pidana Islam.

scholarly journals MODEL PENYELESAIAN ALTERNATIF PERKARA PIDANA DALAM HUKUM ISLAM DAN RELEVANSINYA DENGAN PEMBAHARUAN HUKUM PIDANA INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Hambali Yusuf ◽  
Saifullah Basri
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
Criminal Cases

Many criminal cases that are not resolved either at the level of appeal or cassation level is an indication that there are problems in law enforcement. Islamic Criminal Justice provides much alternative settlement of criminal cases by maintaining a balance of the interests of the victim, the community, the State and the offender. This research aims to analyze the model, explain the alternative settlement of criminal cases in the Islamic law; how setting the model settlement of criminal cases in the Islamic law can be used as a model settlement of criminal cases in the criminal law of Indonesia, to find a model settlement of criminal cases in the Islamic law of relevance to criminal law updates Indonesia.    This research got that setting jarimah qishas-diyat placed as a kind of private law as rights adami. Setting model jarimah-diyat can allow made a model in settlement of a criminal offence in the criminal law of Indonesia in line with developments in the modern criminal law sanctions governing sanctions fines or compensation for victims.  Setting model jarimah-diyat can allow made a model in settlement of a criminal offence in the criminal law of Indonesia in line with developments in the modern criminal law sanctions governing sanctions fines or compensation for victims.

scholarly journals PAKISTAN CRIMINAL LAW: A SHORT NOTE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Aleksey D. Scherbakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Individual

In the article author examines the current Criminal Code of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) of 1860. A brief analysis of the system of criminal law, its main provisions related to the concept of crime, punishment, certain types of criminal encroachments both on the individual and on the interests of the state and society is given. Also, when presenting the material, the author touches on the problems of the influence of Muslim law on criminal law.

Codifying Mercy

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-87
Author(s):  
Arzoo Osanloo
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Alternative Approaches

This chapter examines the final version of the penal code, passed only in 2013. Since just after the Iranian Revolution, this is the first set of transformative revisions in substantive criminal law. The chapter outlines how the “coloring in” of the code compels judicial officials to consider alternative approaches to sanctioning. The courtroom serves as a space in which the state, through its judicial officials, corrals victims' instincts for revenge. As an affective space, the courtroom also conditions how judges reason and inflects subjectivities of all the parties in the courtroom. By serving in the role of arbiter in the ultimate settling of accounts, the state's aim is to contain extrajudicial violence. It does this, in part, by attending to the victim's need for justice, or rather, through providing an outlet for a “healthy” emotional response to an injury—the desire for retaliation. Judges attempt to make victims whole and reestablish their sense of lost dignity. However, members of the judiciary are aware of the risk to the foundational impartiality of the system and the stature of the judges should they press victims' families too hard, particularly during the merits phase of the case.

ASSERTING CRIMINAL LAW CLAIMS ON BEHALF OF THE STATE TREASURY FROM CONVICTS BOUND BY THE JOINT MARITAL PROPERTY REGIME

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (XVIII) ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pokora
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Personal Property ◽  
Marital Property ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Joint Property ◽  
Property Regime

The article covers the terms and scope of liability of convicts from their personal property and from the joint property when they are bound by the joint marital property regime. In the first place, problems of a convict’s liability from the personal property is discussed. Then, the possibility of the convict’s liability from the joint property is presented. Finally, the article discusses problems of limiting or excluding the liability under art . 28 of the Executive Penal Code and the impact of a change in property relations between spouses on the conduct of execution of criminal law liabilities.

The Impact of Islamic Criminal Law on the Qatari Penal Code

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Ahmed Samir Hassanein
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Concise Overview ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The Qatari legislator has adopted a penal code that encompasses rules derived from a divine source and also deals with several other crimes common in positive penal laws. Whoever reads the Qatari Penal Code will notice the significant influence that Islamic criminal rules have had on that law. Its inaugural article unequivocally provides that rules of Islamic law (shariah) shall apply to all crimes of hudud, qisas and diya if a special condition is met. In all other cases, however, shariah rules still permeate the entire code through the proscription of acts derived from shariah law. This article thus aims to present a concise overview of the contemporary Qatari experience in adopting rules derived from Islamic criminal law into its penal code, for the purpose of highlighting its points of strength, as well as identifying points of weakness to overcome.

scholarly journals The Concept Of Adultery Post-Revision Of The Penal Code

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
M. Junaidi ◽  
Resky Gustiandi Candra Imansyah
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Sociological Aspect

Zina is an act that is prohibited by religion as well as by the state. Adultery is arranged in two rules; in Indonesia it is regulated in the Criminal Code called KUHP. For the case of adultery, it uses offense complaint, which means that it will only be processed criminal law if there is one spouse who reported this legal event. While in Islam, zina’s actions are regulated in the Qur’an and Hadith. The problems appeared when the article that regulates zina in the existing criminal code law will be revised its offense from the offense complaint becomes a general offense. This research is under normative research. The type of data in this study is secondary data which were collected by the study method library.  The data collected were analyzed by qualitative descriptive method. The result shows that in the Islamic context of adultery, the reporting and proofing process requires only 4 witnesses and it must be seen by firsthand. Whereas in the draft amendment of the criminal law, the adultery will be regulated by general offense resulting in the proof that should be studied not only from the sociological aspect but also the theological aspect.

Repair Work

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Mirco Göpfert
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Repair Work ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law

This chapter addresses how the gendarmes consider the criminal law as profoundly unjust. The Nigerien penal code (Code Pénal) and code of criminal procedure (Code de Procédure Pénale) both originate from the colonial era and still contain largely unadapted elements of it. According to the gendarmes, these outdated and “foreign” laws were largely inappropriate for policing the life worlds of the people they confronted. From the paradigmatic and law-centered perspective, the gendarmes' arrangements appear as the discretion-led, under-enforcement of the law. The chapter then suggests a perspective that is more sensitive to those actors' views and practices and takes seriously local concepts of law enforcement, dispute settlement, and the search for justice, in this case: gyara, repair work. Seen in that light, the gendarmes repaired a law that they deemed unjust. Not its application, but the law itself was deficient. What was at stake in such instances was the nature of the law and the state itself. The gendarmes had the power to declare the state of exception and act outside the law in defense of law, but they also had the power to declare an “exception to the state.”

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