Question

What would be some of the drawbacks of having the victims of a crime, rather than the state (through its public officials), prosecute criminals?

Answer 1

The drawback would be that many crimes would go unpunished. Some victims could be too scared, some would prefer to forget about the crime and focus on other things in their lives.

Also, it could encourage people to kill their victims, as they would have noone that could prosecute them.

Answer 2

When we let, the victims of the crimes do the prosecution, all of their action would most likely based on emotion rather than objective reason.

This mean that:

- Some crimes might go unpunished because the victims are too scared of the criminals.

- Some punishment may go over the top because of the anger that felt by the criminals

- The prosecuted could granted the victim with money so they can easily get away with their crimes.