A Reflection upon Status of Imprisonment Punishment in the Legal System of Islam

Abstract

Abstract Imprisonment is one of the punishments common in various legal systems. The legal system of Islam has accepted it. Though, in addition to its penal function, Islam has considered some preventive and cautioning functions for it. It should also be admitted that imprisonment is a punishment with correcting and curing function by itself, however, it is not favored, and it is accepted as a way to attain objectives which are mostly other than correction and cure.

Keywords

• imprisonment
• hadd (islamic punishment)
• tazir (punishment with maximum and minimum limits)
• preventive and cautioning measures
• detriments of imprisonment