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.