REVIEW ARTICLE | Oct. 5, 2023
An Evaluation of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Socio-Economic Human Rights: A Discourse on Automation and Job Loss
Nmesoma Nnamdi, Babafemi Zacchaeus Ogunlade, Babalola Abegunde
Page no 508-521 |
DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2023.v06i10.001
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already here, and is speedily transforming industries. This paper examines the impact of AI on the socio-political rights of the people globally, particularly in the area of job loss. Automation is not a new concept. It can be traced to the introduction of machines into industries back in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions. However, the automation introduced by artificial intelligence is of a higher level. Artificial Intelligence is taking risks for humans in the manufacturing industry, mining industry, and even in the Military. It is versatile, that is, it is capable of being used in every sector of the world, and with the rate of technological unemployment, (caused by automation), the significance of Artificial Intelligence has become subject to controversy. This research adopts a desk based doctrinal research methodology to examine the issue of socio-economic human rights in era of automation. This research discovers that AI will create jobs, but an analysis of research studies on job loss due to automation reveals the large margin between jobs created by AI and jobs lost due to AI, thus posing threats to socio-economic human rights. It also discovers that the jobs created by AI require only persons with technical skills and knowledge for employment in the nearest future. AI will cause deskilling and falling wages. This research work recommends that legislations must be put in place to ensure that the use of AI technologies are controlled in order to give the government enough time to balance the inequality created by AI technologies. Technical skills acquisition and robot tax can be adopted by nations to enable them cope with the speed of AI.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Oct. 9, 2023
Security Check Points and Police Extortion: A Study of Road Transport Corridors in Imo State, Nigeria
Otodo Ifeanyichukwu, Aliyu Mustapha, Ulo Edafe, Hussaini Adamu Hussaini
Page no 522-533 |
DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2023.v06i10.002
Police checkpoints have come to be associated with extortion in Imo State, and motorists frequently become victims of a well-established pattern of unethical behavior. This work, ‘Security Check Points and Police Extortion: A Study of Transport Corridors in Imo State, Nigeria’, sought to investigate and understand the nature and pattern of such extortion, its significant effects on drivers, and society at large. The objective of the study is to comprehend the dynamics of this widespread problem and shed light on its deep-seated roots and wide-ranging effects. Data was primarily gathered, methodically coded, and analysed using an interpretivist philosophy and qualitative methods to help the study delve deeply into the various tactics used by the police to extort money from motorists, such as arbitrary searches, illegal fines, and intimidation tactics. Adopting Strain Anomie Theory, the study analysed the methods used at these checkpoints. The effects of this extortion scheme go beyond just the financial losses for drivers. But there is a deterioration of public confidence among the police organisation and personnel. Considering a multifaceted approach to dealing with this issue The study recommends that the police force urgently needs fundamental reforms, covering greater training, stricter supervision procedures, and increased accountability standards. Imo State can aim to eliminate this harmful behaviour and restore faith in the police institution through a concerted effort involving other law enforcement agencies, civic society, and the general public, ultimately building a safer and more just society for all.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Oct. 14, 2023
Legal Reconstruction of the Authority of Bhabinkamtibmas in Settlement of Criminal Acts through Polmas Strategy to Realize Domestic Security Based on Restorative Justice Values
Deni Setyo Utomo, Eko Soponyono, Anis Mashdurohatun
Page no 534-539 |
DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2023.v06i10.003
The research aims to analyze and discover the weaknesses of the regulatory authority of Bhabinkamtibmas in resolving criminal acts through the community policing strategy to realize domestic security at this time and to reconstruct the authority of Bhabinkamtibmas in resolving criminal acts through community policing strategies to realize domestic security based on restorative justice values using a constructivism paradigm, through direct interviews with informants empirically supported with studies literature through theoretical steps. Research Result Show that the Reconstruction of the regulatory authority of Bhabinkamtibmas in resolving criminal acts through a community policing strategy in order to realize domestic security based on restorative justice values can be done by reconstructing Article 15 paragraph (1) letter b of Law Number 2 of 2002 concerning the Police of the Republic of Indonesia, Article 1 number 5, Article Article 3 paragraph (1), and Article 7 of the Regulation of the Head of the National Police of the Republic of Indonesia Number 7 of 2021 concerning Bhayangkara Building Security and Public Order, and Article 1 number 3 of the Regulation of the National Police of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2021 concerning Community Policing, which is related to the authority of Bhabinkamtibmas with a community policing strategy in resolving all forms of legal violations and other forms of disturbance that can disturb the community in a fair manner with a restorative and rehabilitative approach.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Oct. 14, 2023
Legal Reconstruction of Special Criminal Sanctions against Corruption Based on Justice Values
Krisnat Indratno, Sri Endah Wahyuningsih, Bambang Tri Bawono
Page no 540-544 |
DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2023.v06i10.004
The research aims to analyze and discover the weaknesses in regulations on criminal sanctions against perpetrators of criminal acts of corruption at this time, and the reconstruction of regulations on criminal sanctions against perpetrators of criminal acts of corruption based on the value of justice using a constructivism paradigm, through direct interviews with informants empirically supported with studies literature through theoretical steps. The research results show that the act of abuse of authority is a form or manifestation of an unlawful act regulated in Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 jo. Law Number 20 of 2001. From the principles of legislative regulation, one of the reasons for the difference in criminal threats in Article 2 and Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 Jo. Law Number 20 of 2001 is the principle of lex specialis derogat lex generalis (specific laws exclude general laws). The difference in the threat of minimum and maximum sentences in Article 2 and Article 3 of the Corruption Crime Law results in Judges imposing different sentences for the same case. Reconstruction of criminal sanctions against perpetrators of criminal acts of corruption based on the value of justice in Article 3 of the Corruption Eradication Law, namely: Every person who, with the aim of benefiting himself or another person or a corporation, abuses the authority, opportunity or means available to him because position or position that could harm state finances or the state economy, shall be punished with life imprisonment or imprisonment for a minimum of 5 (five) years and a maximum of 20 (twenty) years and/or a fine of at least Rp. 50,000,000,- (fifty million rupiah) and a maximum of Rp. 1,000,000,000,- (one billion rupiah).
REVIEW ARTICLE | Oct. 25, 2023
National Treatment for Combating Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Study in Bangladesh
Sharmin Jahan Runa
Page no 545-556 |
DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2023.v06i10.005
A large number of people particularly the women and the children are being trafficked and smuggled to many countries including India and Malaysia by some organized gangs of human traffickers every year. Human Trafficking causes huge suffering to victims of trafficking ignoring and violating human right values and provoking the victims giving false statements. A trend of human trafficking is increasing day by day in various forms like the sexual exploitation, forced labor, begging, delinquency and adoption, on the other hand, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, ignorance, drug addiction, cross border trade, dowry, child marriage and social curses have so far been identified as the main reasons behind human trafficking. Terming the human trafficking is the heinous crime. It should be emphasized on creating much awareness to vulnerable people specially those are interested to go to abroad as workers, access to need base information and pre-departure orientation along with bringing the recruitment agencies under proper sensitization program, more legal aid farms should come ahead to support the victims legally for compensation from convicted people in this sector. It should be principal agendum to the SAARC country to form Joint Naval and Coast Guards for stopping human trafficking by sea. This article focuses on some cases and recommendations to upgrade the situation.
REVIEW ARTICLE | Oct. 27, 2023
An Appraisal of External influences in the Development of Corporate Criminal Responsibility in Cameroon
Acho Charles Efubai
Page no 557-565 |
DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2023.v06i10.006
Legislations on corporate criminal responsibility often arise out of a pressing crisis, public outrage and the desire to be seen to have acted. However, the eventual enforcement of such legislation is often more weaker than originally promised. Despite the introduction of corporate criminal responsibility into the Cameroonian legal system, there are both institutional and human influences that have marked its development and implementation. It’s likely that external factors are able to affect the final content of the legislation and its implementation. This article analyses the external influences that have affected and which continue to affect the development of corporate criminal responsibility in Cameroon. This article also hails the insertion of corporate criminal responsibility in the revised Penal Code of 12 July 2016 as well as in other specific sectoral legislations. However, this article opines that the law poses very glaring challenges with regards to the imputation of corporate criminal liability and some practical challenges linked with the execution of some categories of sanctions which are not unconnected with the influences of some external parties. This article concludes with the call for the enactment of a specific corporate criminal code as well as the revision of the criminal procedure code in order to insert procedural provisions specific to corporate responsibility in Cameroon.