Concurrent Crimes in the Ethiopian  Criminal Justice System: The Law and  the Practice in Northern Showa Zone,  Amhara Region

Hailu, Yihenew

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dc.contributor.author	Hailu, Yihenew
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-26T06:27:46Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-26T06:27:46Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12066
dc.description.abstract	Most of the time, people engage themselves in the commission of a single crime, and sometimes it is very likely that they may commit more than one crime. Concurrent crimes as the name indicate the existence of two or more unlawful acts resulting from different circumstances. It is a conduct of same person which establishes the commissions of more than one offence arise from a single, successive or repeated act before being finally convicted for any of them. Concurrent crimes by itself give rise to both theoretical and practical difficulties. It is arguably the most complicated topic in criminal law. Despite the fact that, laws dealing with the area of concurrent offences that are controversial, neither get more emphasis nor extensive training in both law school and justice machinery organs or institutions on the issue. This creates unreasonable, arbitrary, inconsistent and unpredictable practice in relation to instituting of a charge and sentencing of such crime. In order to bring proportional punishment and to achieve the goal of criminal law, lawyers and legal practitioners should be able to understand the fundamental differences between a single criminal act and the concurrent one together with the methods of framing charge and sentencing of concurrent crimes. This thesis, therefore, tries to clarify the concept of concurrent crimes across different jurisdictions and in the Ethiopian legal system. It also assesses the legal and practical discrepancy observed in the implementation of such crimes in Northern Showa Zone, Amhara Region. It is conducted based on interviews, focused group discussion, legislative analysis, case analysis and analysis of other relevant literature. The finding of the study shows the existing inconsistencies observed in the instituting of charge and sentencing of concurrent crimes in the study area. Finally, the paper contributes its own share for legal practitioners to have full-fledged knowledge and skill about concurrent offences in general, and methods of framing charge and sentencing in particular.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Law	en_US
dc.title	Concurrent Crimes in the Ethiopian Criminal Justice System: The Law and the Practice in Northern Showa Zone, Amhara Region	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US