A Study on community service orders in Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorChemeli, Mercy Simatwo
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-16T14:21:16Z
dc.date.available2018-11-16T14:21:16Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionSubmitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Bachelor of Laws Degree, Strathmore University Law Schoolen_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is a study on the extents to which community service orders are utilized in Kenya as a sentencing option. The research for its writing proceeded on the hypothesis that community service orders meet the restorative justice goal, thus more should be done to ensure that more are meted, especially for petty offences. The dissertation explains the legal framework of these orders by drawing from national as well as international legislation. The statistics presented regarding the number of these sentences meted in the last year establish that they are generally few, and this has been attributed to the general lack of consistency in sentencing that existed before the sentencing policy guidelines were launched in 2016. However, the reforms made toward increasing the number of community service orders meted as opposed to incarceration are highlighted in the fourth chapter, are a testament that eventually the number of inmates in prison will decrease because criminal offenders will be serving CSOs for the petty offences they have committed.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/6190
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherStrathmore Universityen_US
dc.subjectCommunity service ordersen_US
dc.subjectSentencingen_US
dc.subjectRestorative justiceen_US
dc.subjectLegislationen_US
dc.titleA Study on community service orders in Kenyaen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US
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