Browsing by Author "Woldearegay, Dejen"

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    Causes and Treatments for Juvenile Sex Offenders in Addis Ababa Rehabilitation Center and Remand Home
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-10) Woldearegay, Dejen; Assefa, Abebe (Associate Professor)
    This research studies the causes and treatments for juvenile sex offenders in rehabilitation center and remand home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The research is qualitative, uses observation and interviews with both eight participants and five key informants involved in and working with juvenile sex offenders in rehabilitation center and remand home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It offers a conceptual framework that builds on theories on causes for juvenile sex offending. The research identified media, peer pressure , dysfunctional familial backgrounds, and intimacy between the perpetrator and the victim are the major causes for juvenile sex offending. In addition, the services offered are accommodation, schooling, medical care, court cases follow-up, visitation, recreation, and reintegration. Regarding causes for juvenile sex offending in terms of their variety and the treatment mechanisms in terms of shortage was observed in the findings of the study. The research argues that while the services offered to juvenile offenders are acceptable but they are not enough to safeguard the rights of juvenile offenders. Indeed, while the laws promote the safeguarding of the rights of juvenile offenders, not having a codified child law is the lacuna of the law. The research calls for a child law that promotes children with respect to their internationally, regionally and nationally recognized rights to be fully fulfilled, respected and realized.
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    Provisionining Social Rights to Juvenile Offenders: The Case of Addis Ababa Remand Home
    (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021-05) Woldearegay, Dejen; Tekleabegaz, Solomon (Associate Professor)
    Juvenile offenders are one of the vulnerable groups in the society and their rights protection is at stake. The rights of juvenile offenders are recognized under international, regional and national laws. However, the protection of those rights is questionable. To this end, the purpose of this research is to assess the provision of social rights for juvenile offenders in the case of remand home in Addis Ababa. The paper has tried to assess briefly the international, regional and domestic human right instruments relevant for the treatment of detained persons in general and juvenile offenders in particular. In this regard, human rights instruments such as UDHR, ICCPR, ICESCR, ECHR, ACHPR, ACHR and a series of standards and rules adopted both at international and regional systems were discussed in relation to social rights of juvenile offender. Likewise, the Ethiopian legal system has equivalent set of legislations for the treatment of juvenile offenders in the major legislation of the country such as the 1995 Constitution, the Criminal Justice Policy, the Child Policy, the New Criminal Code, Federal Prisons Commission Establishment Proclamation and Regulations on the Treatment of Federal Prisoners. The study added the experience of the Republic of Mauritius regarding the protection of social rights of juvenile offenders which is a lesson to Ethiopia to share. Interviews and personal observation were used as data gathering tools. The participants were juveniles who were sentenced for rehabilitation. A total of 9 juvenile offenders were selected using random sampling techniques. Four remand home officials were the key informants of the research through interview; they were selected using purposive sampling techniques. The paper presented a brief assessment on the provision of social rights in Addis Ababa remand home in practice. The responses of the interviewed were transcribed and analyzed. The study found that provision of social rights for juvenile offenders in Addis Ababa failed short of compliance to the laws as it found challenges such as insufficient food, dysfunctional sanitation facilities, high levels of overcrowding, poor system of health care, lack of separate treatment based on age and health, absence of full-fledged recreational materials. The thesis suggests ways how social rights of these vulnerable could be improved for the country to fulfill its national and international human rights obligations.