The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia

• 主要作者: Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
• 格式: Article
• 语言: English
• 出版: Sweet & Maxwell Asia 2010
• 主题: K Law (General)
• 在线阅读: http://irep.iium.edu.my/885/1/The_Cultural_and_Legal_Perspectives_on_Wife_Battering_in_Malaysia_by_Roslina_Che_Soh.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/885/

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 leg...