Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1975
Editor(s)
Israel Drapkin & Emilio Viano
ISSN
0669957453
Publisher
Lexington Books
Language
en-US
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review developments which have occurred in the victim’s role in criminal prosecutions under Ethiopian law. In contrast to the penal laws of modern Western states, which define a wide range of wrongful conduct as offensive to the state itself, the traditional Ethiopian law of wrongs viewed relatively few offenses thus. For the most part, the state confined itself to legitimating and assisting the victim’s own efforts to obtain redress.
Recommended Citation
Stanley Z. Fisher,
The Victim's Role in Criminal Prosecutions in Ethiopia
,
in
Victimology: A New Focus, Volume III: Crimes, Victims, and Justice
73
(Israel Drapkin & Emilio Viano ed.,
1975).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1173
Comments
Paper presented to the First International Symposium on Victimology, Jerusalem, 1973.