Environmental and Natural Resources Offense and Criminal Sanction: Intermediate Punishment

Abstract

In addition to imprisonment and fine, an intermediate punishment can be imposed on perpetrators who commit certain types of offenses such as economic crime, business crime, and environmental and natural resource crime. Intermediate punishment is a sentencing alternative that imposed between the imprisonment and fines. It can be exercise to an offender who does not commit a serious crime which is harmful to society. The court can impose an intermediate punishment on offenders in the form of the conditions of probation to control the offender’s behaviour in accordance with Section 56 of the Penal Code in order to remedy the damage caused by the offender’s actions in several ways. This would benefit the society as a whole, rather than imposing imprisonment or fine.