A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris

This research paper describes the nature and legal perspective of elder abuse. This paper with a view of establishing the meaning of elder abuse in United States of America, Japan, Singapore and in Malaysia as well. This particular paper also focus on the nature of elder abuse with regards to its ty...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Nini Sabarina, Mustaffa, Noor Farhah, Haris, Nurulartiah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32999/
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description This research paper describes the nature and legal perspective of elder abuse. This paper with a view of establishing the meaning of elder abuse in United States of America, Japan, Singapore and in Malaysia as well. This particular paper also focus on the nature of elder abuse with regards to its types and the sources of the abuse itself. Besides that, this paper includes the laws that deals with elder abuse issue in each country and to what extent the respective laws are efficient in curbing that particular issue. A comparative analysis is drawn between the three countries including Malaysia in determining whether elder abuse is categorized as crime in each country. In addition, when it is recognized as crime in each country, the responsible authorities have several approaches in tackling with this problem. The recommendations need to be disseminated as to improve the effect of elder abuse. Thus, greater awareness would be the crucial and essential aspect about elder abuse and ways to prevent circumstances resulted from the abuse.
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spelling uitm-329992024-11-13T07:18:54Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32999/ A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris Ismail, Nini Sabarina Mustaffa, Noor Farhah Haris, Nurulartiah Elder abuse This research paper describes the nature and legal perspective of elder abuse. This paper with a view of establishing the meaning of elder abuse in United States of America, Japan, Singapore and in Malaysia as well. This particular paper also focus on the nature of elder abuse with regards to its types and the sources of the abuse itself. Besides that, this paper includes the laws that deals with elder abuse issue in each country and to what extent the respective laws are efficient in curbing that particular issue. A comparative analysis is drawn between the three countries including Malaysia in determining whether elder abuse is categorized as crime in each country. In addition, when it is recognized as crime in each country, the responsible authorities have several approaches in tackling with this problem. The recommendations need to be disseminated as to improve the effect of elder abuse. Thus, greater awareness would be the crucial and essential aspect about elder abuse and ways to prevent circumstances resulted from the abuse. 2011 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32999/1/32999.pdf Ismail, Nini Sabarina and Mustaffa, Noor Farhah and Haris, Nurulartiah (2011) A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris. (2011) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/32999.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Elder abuse
Ismail, Nini Sabarina
Mustaffa, Noor Farhah
Haris, Nurulartiah
A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris
title A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris
title_full A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris
title_fullStr A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris
title_full_unstemmed A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris
title_short A legal study on elder abuse in Malaysia / Nini Sabarina Ismail, Noor Farhah Mustaffa and Nurulartiah Haris
title_sort legal study on elder abuse in malaysia / nini sabarina ismail, noor farhah mustaffa and nurulartiah haris
topic Elder abuse
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32999/