Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong

Malaysia as a State Party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international instruments are bound by the provisions enshrined in those treaties. Despite all this commitments and obligations, children still experience arbitrary arrest, torture and illtreatment while undergoing p...

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spelling my.um.stud.82072017-12-29T02:55:37Z Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong Fon, Thiam Seong K Law (General) Malaysia as a State Party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international instruments are bound by the provisions enshrined in those treaties. Despite all this commitments and obligations, children still experience arbitrary arrest, torture and illtreatment while undergoing police investigation. Still too often, they are deprived of proper treatment that should have been given to them under those treaties. Past literature would show that the rights afforded to children in conflict of the law especially during the pre-trial stage are reduced significantly or in other words not given proper consideration by the enforcement authorities in particular the police and the probation officers even though it is clearly worded in the Child Act 200I . However none of the previous research were able to precisely identify what are the reasons for the non-compliance. 2015 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8207/1/All.pdf Fon, Thiam Seong (2015) Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong. Masters thesis, University of Malaya . http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/8207/
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Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong
description Malaysia as a State Party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international instruments are bound by the provisions enshrined in those treaties. Despite all this commitments and obligations, children still experience arbitrary arrest, torture and illtreatment while undergoing police investigation. Still too often, they are deprived of proper treatment that should have been given to them under those treaties. Past literature would show that the rights afforded to children in conflict of the law especially during the pre-trial stage are reduced significantly or in other words not given proper consideration by the enforcement authorities in particular the police and the probation officers even though it is clearly worded in the Child Act 200I . However none of the previous research were able to precisely identify what are the reasons for the non-compliance.
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title Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong
title_short Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong
title_full Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong
title_fullStr Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong
title_full_unstemmed Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam Seong
title_sort management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in malaysia. do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / fon thiam seong
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