PERCEIVED EFFECTIVENESS OF PUNISHMENTS FOR FOREST OFFENCES

The purpose of this paper is to determine if the law currently in force is ineffective and thus contributes to the occurrence of forest offences. The paper analyses the punishments under the National Forestry Act 1984 based on the perceptions of related stakeholders on the effectiveness of those pun...

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Main Authors: Rokiah Kadir, Muhammad Nur Haniff Mohd Noor, Suriyani Muhamad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UUM Press 2021-07-01
Series:UUM Journal of Legal Studies
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Online Access:http://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/uumjls/article/view/uumjls2021.12.2.3
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Summary:The purpose of this paper is to determine if the law currently in force is ineffective and thus contributes to the occurrence of forest offences. The paper analyses the punishments under the National Forestry Act 1984 based on the perceptions of related stakeholders on the effectiveness of those punishments in addressing illegal logging and other forest offences. A questionnaire was utilized to obtain responses from 240 purposively selected stakeholders. The collected data were analysed in the context of measures of central tendency to identify the extent to which the respondents agreed with the stated items. The results demonstrate that the law was generally perceived to be acceptable. The findings also identified compensation payment based on the value of tree or wood as the most significant item, while longer imprisonment term was rated as the least significant item.
ISSN:2229-984X
0127-9483