The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia

• Main Author: Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: K Law (General); KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/1/The_Cultural_and_Legal_Perspectives_on_Wife_Battering_in_Malaysia_by_Roslina_Che_Soh.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/4/the_cultural_and_legal_perspectives.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/; http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/6th_asli_conf/pdf/Programme_and_panels2009.pdf

Wife battering has become one of the major problems across the world. It cuts across lines of races, religion, income and classes of people. It is also deeply embedded in all cultures, so much so that millions of women consider it as a way of life. This article seeks to examine the cultural and le...