Exploring Victim-Centered Compensation Right for Homicide Survivors in the Ethiopian Criminal Justice System: Understanding Legal and Economic Impacts.

Abstract

This article gives light to Ethiopian law makers to give attentions and promulgate the clear and independent law to treat the homicide survivors in proportion to the economic and moral loss. And aimed to initiate the government to establish the victim’s compensation scheme. The objectives of the study are: to access challenges of homicide survivors to get compensation, to examine the factors that influencing the compensation strategy in Ethiopia, to study compensation payers to homicide victims in the Ethiopian Criminal Justice system. To achieve the planned objectives the study employed socio legal and qualitative approach. The study founded that, the lack of law provision, and independent legal document concerning compensation to crime victims, new for the compensation scheme to the country, and economic status of the society and awareness of the victims to get compensation for injury and economic loss affects the right to get compensations. The study recommends, Ethiopian experience which gives the attention on the offender only to be criminally responsible and that replaces the civil responsibility should be amended and renewed in the sense of contemporary legal development. And the government should plan to enact an independent law to modernize the entertainment of the crime victims, to stable and balance the lost economy, maintain the future income and reimburse the cost of the victims caused by the crime.