Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence

Handling sexual violence cases requires a holistic, human rights-based approach, encompassing prevention, protection, law enforcement, recovery, and ensuring victims' access to justice. Islam advocates equality for all, but its implementation is constrained by the improper handling of many sexu...

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Main Authors: Iqbal Kamalludin, Bunga Desyana Pratami, Syarifa Khasna, Alamul Yaqin, Achmad Jauhari Umar
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Language:Arabic
Published: Jurusan Syariah Fakultas Agama Islam Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang 2024-05-01
Series:Ulul Albab: Jurnal Studi dan Penelitian Hukum Islam
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Online Access:https://jurnal.unissula.ac.id/index.php/ua/article/view/31028
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author Iqbal Kamalludin
Bunga Desyana Pratami
Syarifa Khasna
Alamul Yaqin
Achmad Jauhari Umar
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description Handling sexual violence cases requires a holistic, human rights-based approach, encompassing prevention, protection, law enforcement, recovery, and ensuring victims' access to justice. Islam advocates equality for all, but its implementation is constrained by the improper handling of many sexual violence cases due to the non-retroactive Sexual Violence Law. This paper proposes the urgency of upholding the principle of retroactivity in criminal law and Fiqh Jinayah to build an anti-sexual violence construction based on justice and equality. This normative juridical research employs conceptual, statutory, philosophical, and historical approaches. This approach provides an in-depth understanding of the concept of justice in the handling of sexual violence, according to Sharia. This study uses the Islamic legal literature and comparative legal studies to examine the urgency of upholding the retroactive principle in criminal law and Fiqh Jinayah. This study confirms that applying the retroactive principle to sexual violence is consistent with the six characteristics of Maqasid Sharia: cognitive nature, interconnectedness, wholeness, openness, multidimensionality, and purposefulness. The retroactive principle is necessary in cases of sexual violence as the primary rule in addressing such crimes, in addition to complementing existing laws and regulations. This principle is crucial to ensure fair law enforcement in cases of sexual violence.
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spelling doaj-art-db3ad0bb8fb5416988d979a19d149e152025-02-02T05:43:33ZaraJurusan Syariah Fakultas Agama Islam Universitas Islam Sultan Agung SemarangUlul Albab: Jurnal Studi dan Penelitian Hukum Islam2597-61682597-61762024-05-017213615010.30659/jua.v7i2.310289569Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual ViolenceIqbal Kamalludin0Bunga Desyana Pratami1Syarifa Khasna2Alamul Yaqin3Achmad Jauhari Umar4Universitas Islam Negeri K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid PekalonganUniversitas Islam Negeri K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid PekalonganUniversitas Islam Negeri K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid PekalonganUniversitas Islam Negeri K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid PekalonganEz Zitouna UniversityHandling sexual violence cases requires a holistic, human rights-based approach, encompassing prevention, protection, law enforcement, recovery, and ensuring victims' access to justice. Islam advocates equality for all, but its implementation is constrained by the improper handling of many sexual violence cases due to the non-retroactive Sexual Violence Law. This paper proposes the urgency of upholding the principle of retroactivity in criminal law and Fiqh Jinayah to build an anti-sexual violence construction based on justice and equality. This normative juridical research employs conceptual, statutory, philosophical, and historical approaches. This approach provides an in-depth understanding of the concept of justice in the handling of sexual violence, according to Sharia. This study uses the Islamic legal literature and comparative legal studies to examine the urgency of upholding the retroactive principle in criminal law and Fiqh Jinayah. This study confirms that applying the retroactive principle to sexual violence is consistent with the six characteristics of Maqasid Sharia: cognitive nature, interconnectedness, wholeness, openness, multidimensionality, and purposefulness. The retroactive principle is necessary in cases of sexual violence as the primary rule in addressing such crimes, in addition to complementing existing laws and regulations. This principle is crucial to ensure fair law enforcement in cases of sexual violence.https://jurnal.unissula.ac.id/index.php/ua/article/view/31028justiceretroactive principlesexual violence
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Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence
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title Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence
title_full Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence
title_fullStr Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence
title_full_unstemmed Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence
title_short Revitalizing Justice in Fiqh: Revisiting Non-Retroactive Principles to Address Sexual Violence
title_sort revitalizing justice in fiqh revisiting non retroactive principles to address sexual violence
topic justice
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sexual violence
url https://jurnal.unissula.ac.id/index.php/ua/article/view/31028
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