TY  - JOUR
T1  - Prohibiting ‘Ragging’ in the Malaysian Educational Institutions:
Is the Law Adequate?
AU - Rajamanickam, Ramalinggam AU - Shariff, Ahmad Azam Mohd. AU - Abdul Rahman, Zainunnisa AU - Zainudin, Tengku Noor Azira Tengku 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 8
SP  - 1440
EP  - 1443
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1440.1443
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1440.1443
KW  - penal code
KW  -educational institutions
KW  -Malaysian criminal law
KW  -ragging
KW  -students
AB  - Educational institutions are the place where knowledge and positive values are nurtured. The
graduates of such institutions are expected to portray the level of maturity that they are supposed to have learnt
from the educational institutions. However, in reality the student’s behaviour in the current educational
institutions does not reflect the maturity and positive values that are expected from them. Reports on the
increase of ‘ragging’ incidences in educational institutions served to expose the barbaric acts of the students.
Therefore, the question is whether the Malaysian Criminal Law is adequate enough to curb this undesirable
actions. In order to answer this question, the legal provisions under the Malaysian penal code will be looked
into so as to identify the provisions in the code that are relevant to ‘ragging’. The relevant provisions will then
be scrutinized to determine whether they are adequate to prohibit the act of ‘ragging’. In order to achieve these
objectives, this study employs a qualitative approach. The study found that the Malaysian criminal law has
provisions that are applicable to the physical forms of ‘ragging’. However, the law lacked the necessary
provisions that can govern the other forms of ‘ragging’ such as psychological forms of ‘ragging. ‘Thus, this
study suggests that an amendment to the existing criminal law or the enactment of a specific law on ‘ragging’
is vital to curb this issue.
ER  -