Table of Contents DECLAH.ATION; INTRODUCTION; HYPOTHESIS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY; METIIODOLOOY; CHAPTERIZATION ; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND POPULATION DISTRUBUTION; SHORT HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; POPULATION DIVERSITY; CIIAPTER ONE; CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS: AN OVERVIEW OF SENTENCING ; WHAT IS A SENTENCING?; SENTENCE AIMS; Rehabilitation; Deterrent; Justification of Utilitarian and objectives of Deterrel1ts; General Deterrence; Individual Deterrence; Incapacitation; Retribution; Expressive or denunciation retribution; Debt or Expiation theory; Vengeance; Kantian Retribution; Just Desert; CHAPTER TWO; SENTENCITNG: PUNISHMENT OR TREATMENT; PRO- SENTI ~NCI NU JUS'I'II:ICATIONS; Utilitarian -Deterrent justijication; Retributivists' Justification; JUSTIFICATIONS AGAINST SENTENCING; Psychiatric theory; Biological Theory; Do WE HAVE OTHER OPTIONS FOR SENTENCING?; SOCIO-ECONOMIC REMEDY: POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; CHAPTER THREE; SENF.NTCING JUSTICE: ERITREAN PERSPECTIVE; INTR()J)UCTION; I. CORRECTIONAL APPROACH OF THE CODE; (a) Treatment; (b) Reforming by restricting personal liberty; (c) Suspension; (d) Conditional Release; II. DETERRENT APPROACH OF THE CODE; III. INCAPACI~, ON APPROACH OF THE CODE; CHAPTER FOUR; DISCRETIONARY POWER - CHALLENGED!; DISCRETIONAI~Y POWER IN ERITREAN COURTS; DOES THE ERITREAN PARLIAMENT HAS THE POWER TO~STRICT?; JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND RESTRICTING DISC~ON; CHAPTER FIVE; SENTENCING GUIDELINES ORLAND JUST DESERT CHOICE FOR ERITREA?; MINIMUM MANDATOR Y SENTENCES; "JUST DESERT" – THE LEAST EVIL; CHAPTER SIX ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND JUST DESERT; INTROD1.JCTION; MEDIATION AND 'JUST DESERT;' PLEA BARGAINING AND SENTENCING JUSTICE; CRITICISM ON PLEA BARGAINING; Plea-bargaining and Just Desert; CHAPTER SEVEN; VICTIMS OF CRIME AND JUST DESERT; INTRODUCTION; UNBALANCED TREA1MENT: ACCUSED V VICTIM; LEGAL ANAL YSIS OF VICTIM'S PLACE UNDER ERITREA laws; The Eritrean Constitution and the victim; The Eritrean Penal Code and the victim; The Eritrean criminal procedure and the victim; Victin1s and Civil law; What if the accused is acquitted?; VICTIM REPARATION; RESTITUTION; Critic on restitution; COMPENSATION; Why the State should pay compensation?; Fund from Where? FINE AND VICTIM; MACIIINERY FOR EXECUTION COMPENSATION; 'JUST DESERT' AND TI IE VICTIM ; CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION; BIBIOGRAPIIY.