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Sexual Harassment in the Education Sector: A Malaysian Perspective
Edited by: Ashgar Ali, Ali Mohamed & Muzaffar Syah Mallow
ISBN 978-967-418-421-6
Pages : 344
Price : RM69.00 / € 30.00
Year : 2016

The book evaluates the law and practice of sexual harassment
with particular focus on Malaysian schools and institutes of higher
education. In an engagement in rigorous and laborious academic
research, we cannot by-pass the realities and challenges of social
problems in our schools and higher institutions of learning. There
are few existing guidelines in combating sexual harassment such
as: Malaysian Penal Code, Criminal Law and Code of Conduct for
Industrial Harmony. However, there is yet to be a proper academic
focus providing a deep investigation and crystal clear explanation in drastically minimizing or
eradicating the prevalence of sexual harassment in schools and higher institutions of learning
by formulating a policy and procedure in eschewing sexual harassment in schools in particular
and society in general in the country. The book at reader’s hand is a collection of chapters
meticulously written by well-rounded and eminent scholars and seasoning academia whose
contributions to an academic field could not be over-exaggerated. The vigorous intellectual
labour to conceptualize and re-conceptualize the sexual harassment has been provided
with a deeper understanding. Indeed, this vital treatise explicitly elaborates and elaborately
explicates on various issues relating to sexual harassment specifically in schools and higher
institutions of learning in the country.

The Central Issue in the Rape Trial
Mohamad Ismail Mohamad Yunus

ISBN 978-967-418-372-1
Pages : 349
Price : RM 90.00 / € 40.00
Year : 2015

This book is not a study on why men rape women. The main focus
of this book is to analyses and compares some of the legal issues
and difficulties which rape presents in the criminal justice system in
various jurisdictions and how it could and should be addressing them.
The book begins with the historical conception of rape. It proceeds
with the definition and scope of rape according to the modern views
and perspectives. The main concern is on the law of consent. This is
considered to be an important and crucial part in the law relating to
sexual crimes and also has been labeled as “the heart of the rape trial” (See, Jenny Bargen
and Elaine Fishwick, Sexual Assault: A National Perspective (Office of the Status of Women,
Queensland, 1995). It begins with a discussion on the scope of consent and the difference
between the concepts of “against her will” and “without her consent”. It then proceeds to
elaborate the factors that vitiate consent, such as fraud or mistake, incapacity of the victims
that covers consent given by minors and young persons, persons who lack of intellectual
capacity and persons in the state of insensibility or unconsciousness. It continues with the
vitiation of consent by treats or fear. This area will be divided into two parts, first part deals
with threat or fear of bodily harm and the second part deals with threats or fear of non-bodily
harm and other pressures such as sexual exploitation, economic pressure, unlawful detention
or malicious prosecution and sexual blackmail.