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VOL. 7, ISSUE 3 (2021)
Some measures of compassion towards the offender under Cameroonian criminal law
Authors
HDR Nah Thomas Fuashi
Abstract
A crime is an act or omission which under any written law is deemed to be such, thus attracting punishment. When the culpability of an accused is established by a court after due process, he is convicted and sentenced. This sentence is considered as a punishment and is aimed either at reformation, deterrence, rehabilitation or retribution. In the process of determining whether the accused is guilty or not and ultimately when found guilty, he goes through multiple hardships characterized principally by loss of liberty. The Cameroonian criminal law with its manifested intention to guarantee human rights at all stages of the criminal trial has made an attempt to reduce the hardship which certain criminal measures may have on the offender which the author describes as compassionate measures. This article makes an attempt to expose, with a view of analyzing the efficiency of some of these compassionate measures at pre-trial, trial and post-trial phases of the criminal process.
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Pages:217-225
How to cite this article:
HDR Nah Thomas Fuashi "Some measures of compassion towards the offender under Cameroonian criminal law ". International Journal of Law, Vol 7, Issue 3, 2021, Pages 217-225
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